PATHWAYS TO 'THE KINGDOM'
(Omega D'Oeuvre)
Cyclic Philosophy
Copyright © 2001–12 John O'Loughlin
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CONTENTS
1. Understanding Nobility
2. Fathers and Sons
3. Daughters and Mothers
4. Daughter-Mother-Father-Son
5. Devil-Woman-Man-God
6. Negative Counterparts to Supreme Values
7. Sins and Crimes
8. Doing-Giving-Taking-Being (Revisited)
9. Consistency in Diversity
10. Sensibly Comprehensive and Structurally Sound
11. Elements and Seasons
12. Guidance to 'the
Appendix
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UNDERSTANDING
NOBILITY
1. What is it, essentially, that distinguishes
the higher man from the lower, whether literally high born or not? - Is not the
answer to that simply the fact of his ability to master space and time?
2. Now by master space and time I, of course,
mean to be able to live with himself in solitude and get on with something
noble, whether in the objective terms of space-time (metachemistry)
or in the subjective terms of time-space (metaphysics).
3. In short, the higher man is not cowered by space
and time, the space around him as a solitary individual and the time that is on
his hands in solitude, but uses both to the best of his ability or, at any
rate, to his noumenal advantage. He does not run away from his solitude in
space and time to seek refuge 'down below', in the phenomenality
of volume and mass.
4. For the man who cannot handle solitude is
not noble but plebeian, is of 'the many', and space and time are not what he
can consistently or nobly get along with but, rather, factors to flee from in
the interests of his peace of mind.
5. And in fleeing from solitude the lower man,
the pleb, embraces multitude; for mass and volume are
the planes of the masses, whether bourgeois or proletarian, middle class or
working class, and thus in that respect very much of the world.
6. I do not say that lower men invariably flee
from their solitude in space and time; for often they do not even wish to
embrace it to begin with or would tell you that, in pursuance of their mundane
duties, they were never given the chance to live as individuals but were
obliged, by necessity, to go out to work and rub shoulders with others in the
mass.
7. That may well be, but one remains to be
convinced that a lower man, accustomed to living in mass and volume, and probably
having a physiology at variance with the more ethereal realms above, would be
able to handle time and space to any appreciable or noble extent ... were he
given the chance.
8. I, for one, would remain sceptical that the
common man, the 'man of the people' and/or 'man in the street' (for the two are
approximately synonymous), and thus of 'the many', would be capable of
mastering time and space in some solitary individualistic vocation, were he
given such a chance.
9. For the higher men
are only higher because, genuinely committed to a particular vocation, they
have proved, over many years, that they can master time and space and thus live
with themselves as individuals. Most
people cannot and, lacking vocational resolve or the requisite physiology, would
not wish to live the consistently solitary lives of 'the few', and therefore
they are happy, after their various worldly fashions, to live the
collectivistic lives of 'the many'.
10. Thus the higher man is not something that the
lower man can readily despise or treat with contempt; for the genuine higher
man can and has proved his ability to live with space and time in pursuance of
an individualistic lifestyle, and is therefore always above those who could not
and, in all probability, would not want to live such a solitary lifestyle even
were they in a position to.
11. He is noble and of 'the few', whereas they
are plebeian and of 'the many', who treat mass and volume as the mean and would
get bored or intimidated by too much time and space.
12. So the higher man can do or be something,
depending on the nature of his nobility, which the lower man can't: namely
remain resigned and even committed to space and time, and is therefore his
superior to the degree that he is noumenal and the
other merely phenomenal; that he is ethereal while the other is corporeal; that
he is, in a manner of speaking, immortal while the other is mortal and, in
Nietzsche's memorable phrase, 'human-all-too-human'.
13. I esteem the higher men, the nobles, for I,
too, am of their ilk, having spent most of my adult life in solitary pursuance
of a creative vocation in the Arts, including not only the art of literature,
with particular regard to philosophy, the metaphysical branch of literature par excellence, but
also the arts of painting (via PC) and, most especially, music.
14. For music is the metaphysical art form par excellence, and
therefore the one that stands, with painting, as a properly noble art-form, all
the more so to the extent that it reflects metaphysical values and even
instrumental or tonal approximations, in wind or pipes, whether literally or in
synthetic transmutation, to a metaphysical disposition.
15. Painting, by contrast, is effectively metachemical, and therefore as a rule more fiery than airy,
even if equally noble in its noumenal elevation,
especially when abstract, over the mass/volume world, including the bulk of
literature and sculpture, with particular reference to novels and figure
sculptures.
16. For nobility is divisible, after all, between
the metachemical will of space-time objectivity and
the metaphysical soul of time-space subjectivity, the former fundamentally
female in its apparent bias, or bias for appearances, and the latter
transcendentally male in its essential bias, or bias for essences, so that the
one type of nobility, as of noumenal art form, is
ever distinct from the other.
17. And this applies to both sensuality and
sensibility, outer sense and inner sense, as between autocrats and aristocrats in
space-time objectivity, and theocrats and meritocrats
in time-space subjectivity, as nobility descends from sensuality to
sensibility, as from eyes to heart, on the one hand, wherein it is damned, but
ascends from sensuality to sensibility, as from ears to lungs, on the other
hand, wherein it is saved.
18. For nobility is not
just an aristocratic thing, even though aristocrats are generally of a noble
breed. It is just as much about
autocrats, theocrats, and meritocrats, with a
division, in consequence, between sensual and sensible modes of noumenal objectivity, viz. autocrats and aristocrats on the
one hand, and sensual and sensible modes of noumenal
subjectivity, viz. theocrats and meritocrats on the
other hand - a hand rather more significant of gods than of devils, and thus of
divine as opposed to diabolic modes of immortality, which is to say, foolish
(sensually cursed) and wise (sensibly saved) gods as against evil (sensually
blessed) and good (sensibly damned) devils.
19. I esteem the metaphysical types of nobility
above the metachemical types, because I primarily
relate, as a philosopher, to the higher maleness of noumenal
subjectivity rather than to the higher femaleness, so to speak, of noumenal objectivity, which is more concerned, in autocratic
and/or aristocratic fashion, with rule than leadership, and thus with fire than
air.
20. But I esteem the
sensibility of metaphysics above the sensuality thereof, spaced space above
sequential time in time-space subjectivity, and that is why I identify with
meritocracy rather than theocracy, deeming the latter something to be saved
from, as from folly to wisdom, in 'Kingdom Come'.
FATHERS
AND SONS
1. In general terms, salvation is from the
Father to the Son, and thus is a male actuality in which ego is effectively
substituted for will, and grace for sin.
2. But one can acknowledge this process of
diagonal ascent from sensuality to sensibility on two levels - the level of
phenomenal salvation on the one hand, and the level of noumenal
salvation on the other hand.
3. We are accustomed to thinking in terms of
One Father and One Son in relation to Christianity, but logic demonstrates
that, in general terms, one can distinguish between an earthly Father and Son
in the phenomenal realm of vegetation, and a heavenly Father and Son in the noumenal realm of air.
4. Thus one can distinguish in this way a
physical option from a metaphysical option, the former having reference to mass
and volume, but the latter to time and space.
5. Since mass and
volume, according with the phenomenal realm of physics, are relative, one can
speak of the earthly orders of Father and Son as relative.
6. Since time and
space, according with the noumenal realm of
metaphysics, are absolute, one can speak of the heavenly orders of Father and
Son as absolute.
7. Hence salvation can be relative or absolute,
but in either case it is from the Father to the Son, as from will to ego, or
not-self to self.
8. Since the Father and the Son are identifiable
with organic supremacy as opposed to inorganic primacy (for which one would
have to apply the terms Antifather and Antison), one can conceive of the phenomenal salvation from
mass to volume in terms of a diagonal ascent from the sensuality of the flesh,
more specifically penis, to the sensibility of the brain, both alike according
with a vegetative mean (physical) in relation to the four Elements, viz. fire,
water, vegetation (or earth), and air.
9. Likewise one can conceive of the noumenal salvation from time to space in terms of a
diagonal ascent from the sensuality of the ears to the sensibility of the
lungs, both alike according with an airy mean (metaphysical) in relation to the
aforementioned four Elements.
10. The salvation from the phenomenal Father to
the phenomenal Son, the latter of Whom is identifiable with a First Coming, is
accordingly from relative sin to relative grace, as from relative folly to
relative wisdom, and is broadly commensurate with the Catholic form of
Christianity traditionally.
11. The salvation from the noumenal
Father to the noumenal Son, the latter of whom should
be identified with a Second Coming, is accordingly from absolute sin to
absolute grace, as from absolute folly to absolute wisdom, and is broadly commensurate,
so I teach, with the principal focus of the ideological philosophy of 'Kingdom
Come', viz. Social Transcendentalism.
12. Obviously the latter order of salvation,
commensurate with the Second Coming, has still, at the time of writing (2001),
to come to pass; but if and when it does, we shall be living in 'Kingdom Come',
with an ultimate mode of salvation, effectively upper class, that would
co-exist, in what in other texts I have described as a triadic Beyond, with a
lower type of salvation (phenomenal) for those who may have democratically
opted for salvation, theoretically as Anglicans, from phallus to brain in the
physical sensibility of relative grace.
DAUGHTERS
AND MOTHERS
1. What the above doesn't tell you is what I am
going to discuss now, namely the damnation of Dissenters/Puritans to the bottom
tier, as it were, of our projected and hypothetical triadic Beyond, wherein
they would become good and punishing in relative terms as distinct from wise
and graceful in either relative terms (Anglicans) or absolute terms
(Catholics).
2. Much of what needs to be said about the
triadic Beyond and the respective entitlements or fates of Catholics,
Anglicans, and Nonconformists, has of course already been said in sufficient
detail in previous texts, so I shall not waste any more time repeating myself
here, save to reiterate that tier entitlement follows from salvation and/or
damnation, depending on perceived denominational gender, from a sensual
precondition in both inverted and pyramidal triangles, the former by and large
appertaining to Protestants and the latter to Catholics.
3. Frankly, whether you are entitled, according
to gender (literal or effective) to salvation or to damnation, you would still
be morally better off than would otherwise be the case, so it is not as if
Nonconformists, say, are being especially singled out for a cruel fate or
anything of the sort simply because their denominational status predestines
them for damnation in line with a female disposition overall.
4. It is just that in the inverted triangular
dichotomy between Dissenters/Puritans in volumetric volume, the one passionate
and the other dispassionate, and Anglicans in massive mass, the former are more
aligned, like Rugby League/Union, with the objective side of life, which is
female, and the latter more aligned, like Association Football, with its
subjective side, which is male, and therefore the one has to fall diagonally
(from volume to mass) as the other rises diagonally (from mass to volume), both
of them ending up in contrary orders of mass and volume as germane to
phenomenal sensibility - voluminous volume being very much a salvation from
massive mass and massed mass, by contrast, very much a damnation from
volumetric volume.
5. That said, I need to retrace my steps from
the preconditions, in this case phenomenal, of potential movement, with
Judgement, to the triadic Beyond, to the subject of the female parallels to
male salvation from the Father to the Son, whether relatively or absolutely.
6. Those parallels, again existing on two
levels, are not from the Mother to the Daughter, as a simplistic parallelism to
the above might suggest, but from the Daughter to the Mother, since the former
more accords with sensuality and the latter with sensibility.
7. However, an evolutionary progression or,
rather, devolutionary regression from sensuality to sensibility for females
does not connote with salvation but, on the contrary, with damnation, since
where the male side of life rises diagonally, within vegetation or air, from
sensuality to sensibility, the female side of it falls diagonally, within fire
or water, from sensuality to sensibility, and such a fate is commensurate with
an under-plane subservience, in sensibility, to a male hegemony.
8. Be that as it may, the female fall, premised
upon the prior execution of a male rise, is no less elementally divisible, as
we have seen, than the male rise, and so one has to distinguish, once again,
between the relative damnation of a diagonal descent from volume to mass, and
the absolute damnation of a diagonal descent from space to time, the former
phenomenal and the latter noumenal.
9. Hence just as the Father and the Son can be
phenomenal or noumenal, physical or metaphysical,
earthy or airy, so, in general terms, can the Daughter and the Mother, if in
relation to the primary Elements of fire and water, metachemistry
and chemistry, with corresponding distinctions between the absolute damnation
of the one and the relative damnation of the other.
10. Unlike their male
counterparts, females earmarked for sensibility are not bound for wisdom and
grace but, in damnation, for goodness and punishment, the female parallels to
the above.
11. For just as a male is saved, whether
relatively (in the phenomenal) or absolutely (in the noumenal)
from folly to wisdom, sin to grace, so the female is damned, whether absolutely
(in the noumenal) or relatively (in the phenomenal)
from evil to good, crime to punishment.
12. And the spiritual and soulful corollaries of
this are not holiness, but unclearness, since what was clear in or with the
Daughter becomes unclear in or with the Mother, as eyes are eclipsed by the
heart in the noumenal damnation of metachemistry, and the tongue is eclipsed by the womb in
the phenomenal damnation of chemistry.
13. Thus far from progressing, in salvation, from
sin to grace and, hence, unholiness to holiness,
females regress, in damnation, from crime to punishment and, hence, clearness
to unclearness, ending up in a deferential position to the graceful holiness
which ranges above them on either relative (phenomenal) or absolute (noumenal) terms, depending on the religion.
14. And this is commensurate with the deference
of civilization to culture, of punishment and unclearness to grace and holiness,
as both genders turn away, no matter how temporarily or intermittently, from
the heathenistic norms of philistinism and barbarism,
as germane to a sinful and unholy deference, on the part of males, to a
criminal and clear hegemony by females in the reigning sensuality of Fathers
and Daughters.
15. Therefore just as the Son is the graceful
alternative to the sinful Father, so the Mother is the punishing alternative to
the criminal Daughter - whether absolutely in the noumenal
damnation of repetitive time (heart) or relatively in the phenomenal damnation
of massed mass (womb).
DAUGHTER-MOTHER-FATHER-SON
1. When one takes each of the above familial
categories Element by Element, so that a further generalization, even more generalized,
ensues with reference to the most characteristic or apposite designation for
each case, one arrives at certain findings which are anything but slaves to
convention!
2. For example, in the distinction between the
Daughter and the Mother it transpires that the per se manifestation
of the former accrues, in sensuality, to the fiery element of metachemistry, while the per se manifestation of the
latter accrues, in sensibility, to the watery element of chemistry, so that one
is alluding to the eyes and the womb, respectively, as opposed to the heart and
the tongue.
3. In other words, the Element in which the
Daughter is primary is that of metachemistry, with
its fiery nature (unnatural), whereas the watery nature (supernatural) of
chemistry furnishes us with only a secondary order of the Daughter vis-à-vis a
primary Mother.
4. Conversely, the Element in which the Mother
is primary is that of chemistry, with its watery nature (supernatural), whereas
the fiery nature (unnatural) of metachemistry furnishes
us with only a secondary Mother vis-à-vis a primary Daughter.
5. Thus far from the Daughter and the Mother
being equal in both metachemistry and chemistry, fire
and water, the Daughter is primary in the one and the Mother primary in the
other, because eyes more typify the Daughter than the tongue, while the womb
more typifies the Mother than the heart, even though both factors or organs, of
course, still apply.
6. So in the distinction between relative and
absolute orders of the Daughter and the Mother, the Daughter more typifies
absolutism, i.e. metachemistry, and the Mother
relativity, i.e. chemistry, with the former symbolizing a hegemonic will and
the latter a hegemonic spirit.
7. When we take the male distinction between
the Father and the Son, we shall find that there is likewise a case for a
primary and a secondary manifestation of each, since neither is of equal status
in relation to the same Element.
8. In the case of the physical element of
vegetation, it transpires that the Father is primary and the Son secondary,
because the per
se manifestation of the former can only exist in relation to physics,
specifically with regard to the penis, whereas the per se manifestation
of the latter will only be found in relation to metaphysics, with specific
regard to the lungs.
9. Thus it is not the First Coming, so to
speak, Who is the principal manifestation (per se) of the Son, but the Second
Coming, Whose coming would or should lead to the establishment of 'Kingdom
Come' as a framework, principally religious, in which the lungs were given
their metaphysical due.
10. In the subjective distinction between the
Father and the Son, the former is more genuinely penis than ears, which is to
say, is primary in relation to the one and secondary in relation to the other,
whereas the latter is more genuinely lungs than brain, which is to say, is
primary in relation to the one but secondary in relation to the other.
11. Hence sin is always primarily to be
associated with the penis (flesh) and only secondarily with the ears, since the
Father finds his primary manifestation in physics and is only secondary (to the
Son) in metaphysics.
12. Conversely, grace is always primarily to be
associated with the lungs (transcendental meditation) and only secondarily with
the brain (prayer), since the Son finds his primary manifestation in
metaphysics (with the Second Coming) and is only secondary (to the Father) in
physics, the elemental context of the First Coming, or Christ.
13. Indeed, it transpires that just as the Daughter
symbolizes will (which is never so paramount as in metachemistry)
and the Mother symbolizes spirit (which is never so paramount as in chemistry),
so the Father symbolizes ego (which is never so paramount as, carnally, in the
knowledgeable context of physics), and the Son symbolizes soul (which is never
so paramount as in metaphysics).
14. Hence far from the Father symbolizing will
and the Son ego in this more generalized framework of elemental
differentiation, it transpires that the ego will only be symbolized by the
Father, primarily in relation to physics (the penis) and secondarily in
relation to metaphysics (the ears), whereas the soul will only be symbolized by
the Son, secondarily in relation to physics (the brain) and primarily in
relation to metaphysics (the lungs).
15. Now it is because the Father - and hence ego
- is secondary and the Son - and hence soul - primary in relation to
metaphysics, that the Son can get the better of the Father, as it were, and thus
establish a context in which the soul - and hence grace - is paramount, as
germane to a properly religious dispensation.
16. With physics, by contrast, the Father - and
hence ego - is primary and the Son - and hence soul - secondary, and therefore
the Father will always get the better of the Son and maintain a context, like
Catholic Christianity traditionally, in which the ego - and hence sin - is
paramount, as germane to a falsely religious and, indeed, properly economic
dispensation.
17. It is for this reason that Christianity,
associated as it is with the First Coming, is a religious failure, since life
is primarily interpreted in terms of sin and only secondarily in terms of
grace, as germane to the context, necessarily physical, in question.
18. This is what legitimises the desire for a
Second Coming and his 'Kingdom', since it is only in the context of
metaphysics, and sensibly so alone, that it becomes possible to interpret life,
for those who are 'up to' the Element in question, primarily in terms of grace
and only secondarily in terms of sin, since salvation is, after all, from the
Father to the Son, as from the ears to the lungs, in which latter context the
Son is genuine, and hence above prayer.
19. Returning to our fourfold generalizations,
with one deity, so to speak, to each Element, we can equate the Daughter with
beauty, as germane to her primary manifestation in metachemistry,
specifically with regard to the eyes; the Mother with strength, as germane to
her primary manifestation in chemistry, specifically with regard to the womb;
the Father with knowledge, as germane to his primary manifestation in physics,
specifically with regard to the penis; and, finally, the Son with truth, as
germane to his primary manifestation in metaphysics, specifically with regard
to the lungs.
20. Hence the triumph of the will with the
Daughter per
se; the triumph of the spirit with the Mother per se; the triumph of
the ego with the Father per se; and the triumph of the soul with the Son
per se, as we range across the Elements from fire and water on the
female side of life to vegetation (earth) and air on its male side, the side in
which not beauty and strength, but knowledge and truth have their respective
thrones.
DEVIL-WOMAN-MAN-GOD
1. Since the distinction between sensuality and
sensibility on the female, or objective, side of life is equivalent to
blessedness in the one case and to damnation in the other, we may speak of the
Daughter as blessed, whether absolutely in the noumenal
or relatively in the phenomenal, and of the Mother as damned, again whether on
absolute or relative terms.
2. Since, by contrast, the distinction between
sensuality and sensibility on the male, or subjective, side of life is
equivalent to cursedness in the one case and to salvation in the other, we may
speak of the Father as cursed, whether relatively in the phenomenal or
absolutely in the noumenal, and of the Son as saved,
again whether on relative or absolute terms.
3. That which is blessed in sensual hegemony can
only be damned to sensible subservience if that which was cursed by sensual
subservience elects, through moral resolve, to be saved to a sensible hegemony,
thereby rising diagonally in evolutionary fashion.
4. Such a diagonal rise (between phenomenal or noumenal contiguous planes) we have identified with an
evolutionary progression as a specifically male achievement, and it contrasts
with the diagonal fall (between noumenal or
phenomenal contiguous planes) of females in a devolutionary regression from a
sensual hegemony over males to a sensible subservience under them.
5. Whereas the hegemony of females in blessed
freedom (of not-self) epitomizes the triumph of barbarity over the cursed freedom
(from self) of philistinism, as epitomized by sensually subservient males, the
hegemony of males in saved binding (to self) epitomizes the triumph of culture
over the damned binding (in not-self) of civility, as epitomized by sensibly
subservient females.
6. Thus barbarism triumphs not at
civilization's expense (for what barbarian knows about civilization, much less
civility, its precondition?) but at the expense of philistinism, which panders
to it, while, conversely, culture triumphs not at the expense of philistinism
(for what does culture owe to philistines, with their overly natural impulses?)
but at the expense of civilization which, in its civility, defers to it.
7. Where there is little or no folly there can
be little or no evil, and thus triumphant barbarism, while, conversely, where
there is little or no wisdom there can be little or no goodness, and thus
subservient civilization.
8. One could reverse each of the above
contentions, but basically evil only triumphs because folly allows it to,
whereas goodness only flourishes because wisdom obliges it to.
9. Were folly wholly subservient to evil there
could be no wisdom and thus compelling of good, since salvation from folly to
wisdom would then be inconceivable.
10. Yet even though one can progress, as a male,
from folly to wisdom, and thus from philistinism to culture, or regress, as a
female, from evil to good, and thus from barbarism to civility, it has to be
said that people exist who, genetically, are more prone to evil and/or folly, depending
on their gender, than to wisdom and/or goodness, and that society generally
comes to reflect this fact in the ratio of its components, for better or worse.
11. Thus even societies that claim to be cultured
and/or civilized are not exempt from significant examples of barbarism and/or
philistinism, whether anterior (in 'naturalistic' terms) or posterior (in
artificial terms), depending on the type of society, to the cultural/civilized
mean.
12. I would say that, by and large, people become
more wise and/or good as they mature, and that the greater proportion of evil
and/or folly is generally committed by youths or, at any rate, by younger
people.
13. Whatever the age-group or type of society, it
needs to be emphasized that the blessedness of barbarism (in objective, or
primary, freedom) contrasts with the damnation of civilization (in objective,
or secondary, binding), as the Daughter with the Mother, whether absolutely or
relatively, depending on the elemental axis, i.e. fire or water.
14. Likewise it needs to be emphasized that the
cursedness of philistinism (in subjective, or secondary, freedom) contrasts
with the salvation of culture (in subjective, or primary, binding), as the
Father with the Son, whether relatively or absolutely, depending, once again,
on the elemental axis, i.e. vegetation or air.
15. Just as philistinism is secondary to
barbarism, so civilization is secondary to culture, which means that while the
Father is secondary (subservient in freedom) to the Daughter, the Mother is secondary
(subservient in binding) to the Son. But
whereas the Daughter rules the Father, the Son leads the Mother.
16. When we seek to ascertain, on a religious
basis, the respective standings of the Daughter and the Mother, we find that in
the metachemical context of noumenal
objectivity the Daughter and the Mother, having reference to space-time
absolutism, are of the Devil in its or, rather, Her evil and good
manifestations, which is to say, are akin to blessed (spatial space) and damned
(repetitive time) devils, whereas in the chemical context of phenomenal
objectivity the Daughter and the Mother, having reference to volume-mass
relativity, are of woman in her evil and good manifestations, which is to say,
are akin to blessed (volumetric volume) and damned (massed mass) women.
17. When, by gender contrast, we seek to
ascertain the respective religious standings of the Father and the Son, we find
that in the physical context of phenomenal subjectivity the Father and the Son,
having reference to mass-volume relativity, are of man in his foolish and wise
manifestations, which is to say, are akin to cursed (massive mass) and saved
(voluminous volume) men, whereas in the metaphysical context of noumenal subjectivity the Father and the Son, having
reference to time-space absolutism, are of God in His foolish and wise
manifestations, which is to say, are akin to cursed (sequential time) and saved
(spaced space) gods.
18. Thus just as anything genuinely diabolic, or
of the Devil, can only be either of the Daughter or the Mother in the noumenal objectivity of space-time absolutism, and anything
genuinely feminine, or of woman, only be either of the Daughter or the Mother
in the phenomenal objectivity of volume-mass relativity, so anything genuinely
masculine, or of man, can only be either of the Father or the Son in the
phenomenal subjectivity of mass-volume relativity, and anything genuinely
divine, or of God, only be either of the Father or the Son in the noumenal subjectivity of time-space absolutism.
19. Thus while the Devil has His or, rather, Her
throne in the metachemical element of fire, whether
in relation to the noumenal Daughter (primary devil)
or to the noumenal Mother (secondary devil), the eyes
or the heart, woman has her throne, so to speak, in the chemical element of
water, whether in relation to the phenomenal Daughter (secondary woman) or to
the phenomenal Mother (primary woman), the tongue or the womb.
20. Thus while man has his throne, so to speak,
in the physical element of vegetation (earth), whether in relation to the
phenomenal Father (primary man) or to the phenomenal Son (secondary man), the
penis or the brain, God has His throne in the metaphysical element of air,
whether in relation to the noumenal Father (secondary
god) or to the noumenal Son (primary god), the ears
or the lungs.
NEGATIVE
COUNTERPARTS TO SUPREME VALUES
1. I do not intend to discuss Antidaughters and Antimothers on
the one hand, and Antifathers and Antisons
on the other, except to say that all such negative reference-points have
relevance to that which precedes the organic as its inorganic precondition.
2. Since everything that pertains to the
organic is supreme in its positivity, whether that positivity be metachemical,
chemical, physical, or metaphysical, so all that pertains to the inorganic is
primal in its negativity.
3. Thus anything cosmic (noumenal)
and/or geologic (phenomenal) assumes the negative characteristics of inorganic
primacy, and stands in an inferior relationship to the personal (phenomenal)
and/or universal (noumenal) characteristics of
organic supremacy, which are ever positive.
4. Since supremacy can only be found in the
organic, it follows that nothing inorganic, whether cosmic or geologic, will
have reference to supremacy but only, as noted, to primacy, and thus to primal
modes of doing, giving, taking, and being, as germane to negative
manifestations of metachemistry, chemistry, physics,
and metaphysics.
5. One should not confound the supremacy of
universal modes of doing and being with the primacy of cosmic modes of doing
and being, nor the supremacy of personal modes of giving and taking with the
primacy of geologic modes of giving and taking.
6. No more than one should confound the devils
of metachemical supremacy with the antidevils (negative devils) of metachemical
primacy, or the gods of metaphysical supremacy with the antigods
(negative gods) of metaphysical primacy, or the women of chemical supremacy
with the antiwomen (negative women) of chemical
primacy, or the men of physical supremacy with the antimen
(negative men) of physical primacy.
7. For there is as much difference between antidevils and devils as between ugliness and beauty, and
as much difference between antigods and gods as
between falsity (illusion) and truth, and as much difference between antiwomen and women as between weakness and strength, and
as much difference between antimen and men as between
ignorance and knowledge.
8. The positivity of
organic supremacy means that the doing of devils, whether sensual or sensible,
will always be supreme (beautiful) rather than primal (ugly); that the being of
gods will always be supreme (truthful) rather than primal (false, or illusory);
that the giving of women will always be supreme (strong) rather than primal
(weak); and that the taking of men will always be supreme (knowledgeable)
rather than primal (ignorant).
9. That which is supreme has reference to
fundamentalism when metachemical, to nonconformism when chemical, to humanism when physical, and
to transcendentalism when metaphysical, whereas that which is primal has
reference to materialism when metachemical, to
realism when chemical, to naturalism when physical, and to idealism when
metaphysical.
10. Hence to contrast the materialism of antidevils with the fundamentalism of devils in respect of
negative and positive modes of metachemical doing, or
doing per
se; to contrast the realism of antiwomen with the nonconformism of women in respect of negative and positive
modes of chemical giving, or giving per se; to contrast the naturalism
of antimen with the humanism of men in respect of
negative and positive modes of physical taking, or taking per se; and to
contrast the idealism of antigods with the
transcendentalism of gods in respect of negative and positive modes of
metaphysical being, or being per se.
11. The primacy of materialism is no less
inferior to the supremacy of fundamentalism than the primacy of realism to the
supremacy of nonconformism, or the primacy of
naturalism to the supremacy of humanism, or the primacy of idealism to the
supremacy of transcendentalism.
12. In such fashion we esteem - at any rate if
sufficiently organic and, hence, sane - beauty above ugliness, strength above
weakness, knowledge above ignorance, and truth above illusion, never
forgetting, however, that in the distinction between sensual and sensible
manifestations of each positive value it is the sensible one which always
accords, whether relatively or absolutely, with wisdom and/or goodness as
opposed to folly and/or evil.
13. But even positive evil and folly are
preferable, from an organic standpoint, to negative evil and folly, just as
sensual beauty and truth are preferable to sensual ugliness and falsity, their noumenal inorganic counterparts, or sensual strength and
knowledge (carnal) preferable to sensual weakness and ignorance, their
phenomenal inorganic counterparts, which, of course, are negatively evil or
foolish on relative terms.
14. Be that as it may, those of us who esteem
wisdom and goodness above folly and evil will not make the mistake of
preferring their negative manifestations in inorganic primacy to those modes of
wisdom and goodness which accord with organic supremacy, but will know that
there is as much difference between truth and falsity or beauty and ugliness or
strength and weakness or knowledge and ignorance in sensibility as ever there
is, or was, in sensuality, and that only in the sensible modes of organic
supremacy is wisdom and goodness, whether relatively in the phenomenal or absolutely
in the noumenal, positively genuine.
SINS
AND CRIMES
1. Not so long ago I had a tendency to write -
as certain previous texts will confirm - about the possibility of people being
saved, with Judgement, from 'sins and/or punishments of the world' to the
triadic Beyond, and specifically with reference to a majority mandate for
religious sovereignty, a concept I have associated, all along, with 'Kingdom
Come' and hence with rights appertaining to religious self-determination (for
males) under the leadership of Social Transcendentalism.
2. Now I can see, for perhaps the first time,
how inadequate such a phrase as 'sins and/or punishments of the world' actually
was; for, in point of fact, salvation is only from sin (to grace), and
punishment is germane to female sensibility and therefore hardly something to
be saved from!
3. Nor is the term 'world' quite comprehensive
enough in its phenomenal limitation, by and large, to the concrete sphere of
volume and mass, since it fails to do justice to those aspects of life and
persons who have more affinity with time and space, and are accordingly above
the world (of water and vegetation) in what amounts to a kind of heavenly
and/or hellish 'overworld' divisible between fire and
air.
4. Therefore the phrase 'salvation from sins
and/or punishments of the world' fails on a number of counts, not least of all
in relation to the fact that one would be dealing with both worldly and
supra-worldly, phenomenal and noumenal, elements
whose deliverance from a sensual bias in one or another of the existing
triangular structures of 'heathenistic modernity'
required, according to gender, both salvation and damnation.
5. Thus there can be no salvation from the
world of 'heathenistic modernity' without damnation
from it on the part of those who have been earmarked for such a fate in
relation to their objective denominational standings, and no salvation from the
'overworld' of a more elevated order of that same heathenistic reality without damnation from it on the part
of those females who have been earmarked for such a fate in respect of a
similar objective standing within the denominational framework of Catholicism
in general.
6. That there are basically two organic
triangles - one phenomenal in volume and mass, the other noumenal
in time and space - is demonstrably the case, and while the lower one is
largely composed of Protestants, the higher one has reference to a sort of
Catholic decadence whereby the non-triangular tradition of brain over womb, or
Christ over the Virgin Mary, the relative Son over the relative Mother, has
been effectively eclipsed by the triangularity of the
Father, the Risen Virgin, and the Sacred Heart of a paradoxically resurrected
Christ.
7. Now while the phenomenal triangle of
Protestants is effectively inverted, the noumenal
triangle of Catholics is pyramidal in its conventional positioning, in which
the Risen Virgin would accord with the top corner, the Father with the bottom
left-hand corner, and the Sacred Heart of the Risen Christ with the bottom
right-hand corner, the corner standing for metachemical
sensibility (at a specific - and penultimate - subdivisional
manifestation) rather than for either metachemical
sensuality (topmost corner) or metaphysical sensuality (bottom left-hand
corner), and thereby completing a Cupidian axis, so
to speak, with the Risen Virgin.
8. It is as if the eyes and the heart, equating
with metachemical objectivity, stand in a pyramidal
or conventionally triangular relationship to the ears, those organic
manifestations of metaphysical subjectivity, with particular reference to the
sensuality thereof.
9. Thus eyes over ears aided and abetted (on
the same side of the gender fence, so to speak) by the heart ... is
approximately equivalent to the Risen Virgin over the Father aided and abetted
by the Sacred Heart of the Risen Christ, with triangular implications that
accord with a sensual predominance both in respect of the Risen Virgin and the
Father, the eyes and the ears, neither of which have any bearing on sensibility
(unlike, to a limited extent, the Risen Christ), but are precisely that from
which one needs to be saved and/or damned towards a sensible alternative.
10. Which is, of course, where salvation of the
generality of Catholics from ears to lungs, as from the Father to the Second
Coming, would come into play, with the accompanying damnation of those overly
Marian Catholics, mostly female, from the eyes to the heart or, at any rate, to
a more sensibly devolved manifestation of the heart, roughly equivalent to the
administrative aside (to the triadic Beyond) in 'Kingdom Come', as from the
Risen Virgin to a more religiously sensible manifestation of the Risen Christ.
11. I should perhaps remind the reader at this
point that while the metaphysical axis of time-space subjectivity is divisible,
in sensuality (sequential time) and sensibility (spaced space), between the
Father and the Son, the one commensurate with a secondary manifestation of God
and the other with a primary manifestation of that same metaphysical reality,
the metachemical axis of space-time objectivity is
likewise divisible, in sensuality (spatial space) and sensibility (repetitive
time), between the Daughter and the Mother, the one commensurate with a primary
manifestation of the Devil and the other with a secondary manifestation of that
same metachemical reality.
12. Thus while salvation from the noumenal Father is indeed from a secondary god (sensual) to
a primary god (sensible), this latter equivalent to the soulful manifestation
of the Second Coming (the Holy Soul of Heaven), damnation from the Risen
Virgin, equivalent to the noumenal Daughter, is
actually from a primary devil (sensual) to a secondary devil (sensible),
equivalent to the noumenal Mother, who would be akin
to the volitional manifestation of the Second Coming, as germane to the
administrative aspects of 'Kingdom Come'.
13. Be that as it may, salvation and/or
damnation, depending by and large on gender, from the Catholic 'overworld' to either the top tier of the triadic Beyond
(salvation) or the administrative aside in 'Kingdom Come' (damnation) to such a
three-tier structure, is only half of the overall picture; for one must
remember that there is also the need for salvation and/or damnation from the
Protestant 'underworld', so to speak, the corporeal rather than ethereal,
concrete rather than abstract, world of the inverted triangle, to the middle
and bottom tiers of the Beyond in question.
14. Such an inverted triangle, having reference
to mass and volume, is divisible between Protestants-proper, i.e. Dissenters
and Puritans, along the horizontal axis at the top, and Anglo-Catholics, or
Anglicans, at the bottom tip or corner of the triangle in question, so that we
may posit a dichotomy between water and vegetation, or tongue (duly 'forked',
or divided between dispassionate Puritans and passionate Dissenters) and flesh,
with of course its phallic focus, as the vegetative cynosure for the Anglican
'fall guy' at the bottom.
15. One saves, be it noted, from Father to Son,
even in phenomenal worldliness, and therefore from phallus to brain, sensual vegetativeness to sensible vegetativeness
within the physical subjectivity of mass-volume relativity, and therefore a
majority mandate from Anglicans for religious sovereignty, as indeed a majority
mandate for religious sovereignty on a wider electoral basis, would result in
their salvation to the middle tier of the triadic Beyond, wherein vegetation
had its sensible focus (brain), and grace was accordingly relative.
16. But one damns, be it not forgotten, from
Daughter to Mother, even in phenomenal worldliness, and therefore from tongue
to womb, sensual wateriness to sensible wateriness within the chemical
objectivity of volume-mass relativity, and therefore a majority mandate for
religious sovereignty would result in Protestants-proper, affiliated as they
actually are to the so-called 'free churches', being damned to the bottom tier
of the triadic Beyond, wherein water would have its sensible focus (womb), and
punishment was accordingly relative.
17. For if one saves from sin to grace, folly to
wisdom, those who, as literal males or, alternatively, persons of a subjective
denominational affiliation, are capable of rising diagonally from sensuality to
sensibility, one can only damn from crime to punishment, evil to good, those
whose fate it is, as literal females or persons of an objective denominational
bias, to fall diagonally from sensuality to sensibility - the former rising
within vegetation (phenomenal relativity) and air (noumenal
absolutism), the latter falling within fire (noumenal
absolutism) and water (phenomenal relativity).
18. Thus far from saving from 'sins and/or
punishments of the world', the Second Coming and effective Messiah of 'Kingdom
Come' can only save from sins of the world (whether 'under' or 'over', relative
or absolute, concrete or abstract, phenomenal or noumenal)
to the graces of the Other World (the triadic Beyond of 'Kingdom Come', with
specific reference to the middle and top tiers thereof), while simultaneously damning
from crimes of the world (whether 'over' or 'under', absolute or relative,
abstract or concrete, noumenal or phenomenal) to the
punishments of the Other World (the triadic Beyond of 'Kingdom Come', with
specific reference to the administrative aside and to the bottom tier of the
Beyond in question).
19. The Father is a sinner to be saved from,
whether in the phenomenal or the noumenal, while the
Daughter (including the sensual context of the Risen Virgin) is a criminal to be
damned from, whether in the noumenal or the
phenomenal.
20. And in both cases
one rises to the Son and falls to the Mother, where not sin and crime but grace
and punishment have their sensible thrones.
DOING-GIVING-TAKING-BEING
(REVISITED)
1. As we may contrast, on the noumenal axis of space-time objectivity, the evil doing of
the metachemical Daughter with the good doing of the metachemical Mother, so we may contrast, on the phenomenal
axis of volume-mass objectivity, the evil giving of the chemical Daughter with
the good giving of the chemical Mother.
2. And just as we can contrast, on the
phenomenal axis of mass-volume subjectivity, the foolish taking of the physical
Father with the wise taking of the physical Son, so we can contrast, on the noumenal axis of time-space subjectivity, the foolish being
of the metaphysical Father with the wise being of the metaphysical Son.
3. The evil doing of the metachemical
Daughter is the focus of absolute barbarism (barbarity), and the good doing of
the metachemical Mother the focus, by contrast, of
absolute civilization (civility).
4. The evil giving of the chemical Daughter is
the focus of relative barbarism, and the good giving of the chemical Mother the
focus, by contrast, of relative civilization.
5. The foolish taking of the physical Father is
the focus of relative philistinism (nature), and the wise taking of the
physical Son the focus, by contrast, of relative culture (nurture).
6. The foolish being of the metaphysical Father
is the focus of absolute philistinism, and the wise being of the metaphysical
Son the focus, by contrast, of absolute culture.
7. Barbarism is never more evil than in
connection with doing, and civilization never more
good than in connection with giving.
8. Philistinism is never more foolish than in
connection with taking, and culture never more wise
than in connection with being.
9. Just as metachemical
doing is an attribute of the Devil, whether for better (good) or worse (evil),
so chemical giving is an attribute of woman, whether for better (good) or worse
(evil).
10. Just as physical taking is an attribute of
man, whether for better (wise) or worse (foolish), so metaphysical being is an
attribute of God, whether for better (wise) or worse (foolish).
11. Doing, giving, taking, and being exist, of
course, in every Element, from fiery metachemistry
and watery chemistry on the objective side of the gender divide to vegetative
physics and airy metaphysics on its subjective side, but the per se manifestation
of doing - and hence the will - only exists in relation to metachemistry;
the per se manifestation of giving - and hence the spirit - in relation
to chemistry; the per se manifestation of taking - and hence the ego -
in relation to physics; and the per se manifestation of being - and
hence the soul - in relation to metaphysics.
12. Whether doing and giving are evil or good,
and taking and being foolish or wise will depend, of course, on the sense of
the Element to which they are principally attached, i.e. whether that sense is
outer, and sensual, or inner, and sensible.
13. Outside of metachemistry,
the elemental context of the will per se, evil recedes, on sensual primary and
sensible secondary terms, from the most evil doing of metachemistry
to the least evil doing of metaphysics via the more (relative to most) evil
doing of chemistry and the less
(relative to least) evil doing of physics.
14. Outside of chemistry, the elemental context
of the spirit per
se, good recedes, on sensual secondary and sensible primary terms, from the
most good giving of chemistry to the least good giving of physics via the more
(relative to most) good giving of metachemistry and
the less (relative to least) good giving of metaphysics.
15. Outside of physics, the elemental context of
the ego per
se, folly recedes, on sensual primary and sensible secondary terms, from the
most foolish taking of physics to the least foolish taking of chemistry via the
more (relative to most) foolish taking of metaphysics and the less (relative to
least) foolish taking of metachemistry.
16. Outside of metaphysics, the elemental context
of the soul per
se, wisdom recedes, on sensual secondary and sensible primary terms, from
the most wise being of metaphysics to the least wise being of metachemistry via the more (relative to most) wise being of
physics and the less (relative to least) wise being of chemistry.
17. Whatever the Element, the will is a
manifestation of evil and, hence, power - from the first-rate power of metachemistry to the fourth-rate power of metaphysics via
the second-rate power of chemistry and the third-rate power of physics.
18. Whatever the Element, the spirit is a
manifestation of good and, hence, glory - from the first-rate glory of
chemistry to the fourth-rate glory of physics via the second-rate glory of metachemistry and the third-rate glory of metaphysics.
19. Whatever the Element, the ego is a
manifestation of folly and, hence, form - from the first-rate form of physics
to the fourth-rate form of chemistry via the second-rate form of metaphysics
and the third-rate form of metachemistry.
20. Whatever the Element, the soul is a
manifestation of wisdom and, hence, contentment - from the first-rate
contentment of metaphysics to the fourth-rate contentment of metachemistry via the second-rate contentment of physics
and the third-rate contentment of chemistry.
CONSISTENCY
IN DIVERSITY
1. To contrast the doing (power) of will (evil)
with the being (contentment) of soul (wisdom) in whichever Element ... from fire
and water on the objective Left, so to speak, to vegetation and air on the
subjective Right.
2. To contrast the giving (glory) of spirit
(good) with the taking (form) of ego (folly) in whichever Element ... from fire
and water to vegetation and air.
3. The will is evil because it is that which is
criminal (directly free), whether on most (metachemical),
more (chemical), less (physical), or least (metaphysical) criminal terms,
whereas the soul is wise because it is that, by contrast, which is graceful
(directly bound), whether on most (metaphysical), more (physical), less
(chemical), or least (metachemical) graceful terms.
4. The spirit is good because it is that which
is punishing (indirectly bound), whether on most (chemical), more (metachemical), less (metaphysical), or least (physical)
punishing terms, whereas the ego is foolish because it is that, by contrast,
which is sinful (indirectly free), whether on most (physical), more
(metaphysical), less (metachemical), or least
(chemical) sinful terms.
5. Doing is powerful because it is apparent (of
elemental particles), whether on most (metachemical),
more (chemical), less (physical), or least (metaphysical) apparent terms,
whereas being is content because it is essential (of elemental wavicles), whether on most (metaphysical), more (physical),
less (chemical), or least (metachemical) essential
terms.
6. Giving is glorious because it is
quantitative (of molecular particles), whether on most (chemical), more (metachemical), less (metaphysical), or least (physical)
quantitative terms, whereas taking is formal because it is qualitative (of
molecular wavicles), whether on most (physical), more
(metaphysical), less (metachemical), or least
(chemical) qualitative terms.
7. The evil of the will is most criminal when
the power of doing is most apparent and least criminal when the power of doing
is least apparent, as in metachemical and
metaphysical contexts, whereas the evil of the will is more (relative to most)
criminal when the power of doing is more apparent and less (relative to least)
criminal when the power of doing is less apparent, as in chemical and physical
contexts.
8. The goodness of the spirit is most punishing
when the glory of giving is most quantitative and least punishing when the
glory of giving is least quantitative, as in chemical and physical contexts,
whereas the goodness of the spirit is more (relative to most) punishing when
the glory of giving is more quantitative and less (relative to least) punishing
when the glory of giving is less quantitative, as in metachemical
and metaphysical contexts.
9. The folly of the ego is most sinful when the
form of taking is most qualitative and least sinful when the form of taking is
least qualitative, as in physical and chemical contexts, whereas the folly of
the ego is more (relative to most) sinful when the form of taking is more
qualitative and less (relative to least) sinful when the form of taking is less
qualitative, as in metaphysical and metachemical
contexts.
10. The wisdom of the soul is most graceful when
the contentment of being is most essential and least graceful when the
contentment of being is least essential, as in metaphysical and metachemical contexts, whereas the wisdom of the soul is
more (relative to most) graceful when the contentment of being is more
essential and less (relative to least) graceful when the contentment of being
is less essential, as in physical and chemical contexts.
11. That said, it should not be forgotten that
whether the will and the ego are beautiful (metachemical),
strong (chemical), knowledgeable (physical), or truthful (metaphysical), the
division between their sensual and sensible manifestations means that they will
be subject to a distinction between evil and good in relation to the objective
elements of fire and water, and to a distinction between folly and wisdom in
relation to the subjective elements of vegetation and air, with primary and
secondary implications as already discussed.
12. Likewise, it should be remembered that
whether the spirit and soul are loving (metachemical),
proud (chemical), pleasurable (physical), or joyful (metaphysical), the
division between their sensual and sensible manifestations means that they will
be subject to a distinction between clearness and unclearness in relation to
the objectivity of fire and water, and to a distinction between unholiness and holiness in relation to the subjectivity of
vegetation and air, with primary and secondary implications, as before.
SENSIBLY
COMPREHENSIVE AND STRUCTURALLY SOUND
1. From the way I use
and refer to words like evil, good, folly, and wisdom, it should be evident
that I am not in favour of completely eliminating evil or folly in the
interests of good and wisdom, but that I accept the totality of factors as
indicative of the broad nature of reality.
2. I may be more in favour of metaphysics than
of physics, and of physics than of chemistry (I am of course male), and of
chemistry than of metachemistry, but I do not
subscribe to the view that metachemistry should be
totally eliminated from life or the world or society or even the individual.
3. I accept that life is a composite of all
four main Elements - fire, water, vegetation (earth), and air - and I therefore
accept the complementary existences of evil, good, folly, and wisdom, as of the
will, the spirit, the ego, and the soul, both in relation to the Elements
generally and to each one in particular.
4. But I obviously
prefer, in my self-styled capacity of Messianic philosopher, soul to ego, and
ego to spirit, and spirit to will, which is essentially the standpoint of
metaphysics, the discipline par excellence of philosophy.
5. And because I am more disposed to wisdom
than to folly, and even more disposed to goodness than to evil, I broadly
prefer to think in terms of sensible manifestations of soul, ego, spirit, and
will than of their sensual counterparts, which, as the reader will know, I
identify with barbarism and philistinism as opposed to culture and
civilization, or, put differently, with barbarity and nature as opposed to
nurture and civility.
6. I am, if you will, an advocate of culture
and civilization on a new and altogether higher basis to whatever may have
passed for such in the Christian past, and that is why I have invented the
concept of a triadic Beyond, together with its administrative aside in 'Kingdom
Come'.
7. I do not say that there should be only
higher orders of culture and civilization, as if 'Kingdom Come' should be
reduced to only the top tier of the triadic Beyond and its administrative
aside, but that the Beyond in question, being triadic, must also embrace lower
orders of culture and civilization as germane to a 'new earth' and to a 'new
purgatory' for persons of mostly Protestant descent.
8. Yet such lower orders of culture and
civilization would be coloured and influenced by the higher manifestations
thereof, equivalent to a 'new heaven' and (in the administrative aside of
higher civilization) to a 'new hell', and would not therefore be a mere rehash
of the Christian - and in particular Roman Catholic - past.
9. No Element is lacking from 'Kingdom Come',
nor can any Element reasonably be ignored, as though something to avoid ...
except insofar as one may have specific parameters relative to one's peculiar
status in the coming 'Kingdom', whether in relation to the triadic Beyond or to
its administrative aside.
10. Every Element is accounted for in 'Kingdom
Come' - fire in the administrative aside to the triadic Beyond no less than
water, vegetation, and air in the three-tier structure itself, so that Time may
defer to Eternity, and to an Eternity composed of Mass, Volume, and Space
within the sensible parameters, by and large, of this new civilization/culture
complex.
11. And even each tier of the triadic Beyond
would be subdivisible three ways, so as to allow for
chemical, physical, and metaphysical distinctions within each of the prevailing
Elements, with nonconformist, humanist, and transcendentalist implications both
individually and collectively.
12. For the triadic Beyond would be ministering
to people of both Protestant and Catholic denominational descent, and to be
able to do so properly it requires that not only should the genders be
segregated along chemical and physical lines, but that males themselves should
be divided between physical and metaphysical on each tier level, so as to allow
for the more subjective distinction, above spirituality, between
intellectuality and emotionality, knowledge and truth, as befitting a structure
in which, for virtually the first time in Western history, transcendentalism
would be given its sensible due, and humanism and nonconformism
be obliged to subordinate themselves to it in the interests not only of a new
knowledge (earth) and a new strength (purgatory) but of that ultimate truth
which it would be the duty of Social Transcendentalism, as the ideological
philosophy of 'Kingdom Come', both in its political (with especial reference to
the administrative aspects of 'the Centre' [see, for example, Opus D'Oeuvre] in a Gaelic federation) and religious
manifestations, to uphold ... for all Eternity.
ELEMENTS
AND SEASONS
1. In relation to the Elements it could be said
that summer corresponds to fire, winter to water, spring to vegetation (earth),
and autumn to air, since it is generally the case that summer is the season of
the sun par
excellence, winter the season of rain and/or snow, spring the season of
vegetative renewal, and autumn the season of wind.
2. Thus the seasons would seem to be divisible
between the primary elements of fire and water, corresponding to summer and
winter, and the secondary elements of vegetation and air, corresponding to
spring and autumn.
3. Therefore summer and winter, being primary,
would be the female seasons, as it were, of the year, with autumn and spring
their male - and hence secondary - counterparts, since in the division of the
genders females are indubitably primary and males secondary.
4. Thus the fieriness and wateriness of
females, as of summer and winter, contrast with the vegetativeness
(earthiness) and airiness of males, as of spring and autumn.
5. Taking the noumenal/phenomenal
distinction between time and space on the one hand and volume and mass on the
other - the former effectively upper class and the latter lower class - it
transpires that summer and autumn correspond, in their fieriness and airiness,
to the noumenal realm of time and space, while winter
and spring correspond, in their wateriness and vegetativeness,
to the phenomenal realm, 'down below', of volume and mass.
6. Thus summer and autumn stand above winter
and spring as fire and air above water and vegetation or, in religious terms,
as hell and heaven above purgatory and the earth, devils and gods above women
and men.
7. Summer is not only heat but also light,
whereas autumn signifies a diminution of this light towards the darkness, as it
were, of winter, after which things open out towards the light again with the
coming of spring.
8. Thus there is more light with summer than
spring, and more darkness with winter than autumn, since the male seasons of
spring and autumn are transitional, in their secondary natures, between the
season of light par
excellence and the season of darkness par excellence, viz. summer and
winter.
9. In this
distinction, admittedly somewhat pagan, between the light and the dark, which
comes first - light or darkness? A
straightforward answer would suggest the darkness, and in seasonal terms it is
certainly the case that winter is the bedrock from which light eventually
emerges in the form of spring, before this in turn is upstaged by the light of
summer, prior to the ensuing of autumn and a gradual sinking towards the
darkness again.
10. Hence winter - spring - summer - autumn, or
darkness - half-light - light - half-darkness, as the seasons proceed from darkness
to light and return to the darkness again.
11. If spring is an opening out from winter to
summer, then autumn,
conversely, is a closing down from summer to winter, which means
that the male seasons both offer an escape from darkness and a return to it,
once the light has run its summery course.
12. In elemental terms, however, it is arguably
the case that fire precedes water as air succeeds vegetation, and that far from
the darkness preceding the light it is the light of fire which precedes the darkness
of water (for prior to light there is simply nothingness, not darkness) and the
light or, rather, lightness of air which - in effectively Christian terms -
succeeds the heaviness of earth (vegetation).
13. Can we therefore not speak of the light of
summer preceding the darkness of winter, but of the lightness of autumn
succeeding the heaviness of spring?
No, we can't; for it is manifestly the case that summer precedes autumn,
as light ... lightness, and winter precedes spring, as dark ... heaviness.
14. The question is then: Does summer and autumn
precede winter and spring, or vice versa, and the answer to that would seem,
contrary to the Elements, to be: that winter and spring precede summer and
autumn, like purgatory and the earth preceding hell and heaven, or women and
men preceding devils and gods.
GUIDANCE
TO 'THE
1. It could be said that, in general terms,
purgatory and the earth, or women and men, precede hell and heaven, or devils
and gods, in relation to 'the world' vis-à-vis the prospect of 'Kingdom Come',
with its triadic Beyond and administrative aside, as outlined by me in both
this and previous texts.
2. Be that as it may, there could be no
question of 'Kingdom Come', should it actually come to pass, being solely
composed of hell and heaven, or devils and gods, since, as I have shown, the
triadic Beyond must also minister to reborn women and men, or new forms of
purgatory and the earth, as specifically germane to persons of Nonconformist
and Anglican descent should they opt for religious sovereignty come
'Judgement', if it is to do both proper justice to 'the world' and, more
importantly, to itself as a viable structure.
3. Thus no more than 'the world' excludes
devils and gods now, least of all in relation to sensuality, can men and women
be excluded from the otherworldly context of 'Kingdom Come' when and if the
time comes for people of all denominational persuasions to opt, in a
paradoxical election enabling them to seek deliverance - should a majority
mandate be forthcoming - from both criminal and sinful forms of political
sovereignty to graceful and punishing forms of religious sovereignty, for
deliverance in salvation and/or damnation from the sensual status quo to a more
sensible prospect in which, without undue fanaticism or compulsion,
civilization and culture would 'blossom anew' under the leadership of the
Second Coming, and the Son and the Mother tend, on whatever elemental basis, to
take official precedence over the Father and the Daughter.
4. For just as the Father is something or
someone to be saved from (to the Son), so the Mother is something or someone to
be damned to (from the Daughter), if sensibility is to 'blossom anew' and
civilization and culture be both extended (in relation to the administrative aside
to and top tier of our projected triadic Beyond) and renewed (in relation to
the bottom and middle tiers of the Beyond in question).
5. Only thus will the 'winter' and 'spring' of
Western civilization be overshadowed, as it were, by its 'summer' and 'autumn',
as purgatory and the earth are renewed in the presence of a 'new hell' and a
'new heaven' up above, like the darkness and heaviness of 'the world',
corresponding to strength and knowledge, being upstaged and modified by the
light and lightness of the 'overworldly above',
corresponding to beauty and truth.
6. For only under the damnation and/or
salvation, depending by and large on gender, of Catholics to the administrative
aside and/or top tier of the triadic Beyond ... can Protestants be damned and/or
saved to the bottom and/or middle tiers thereof, passing from the darkness of
sensual strength (relative evil) and the heaviness of sensual knowledge
(relative folly) to the darkness of sensible strength (relative good) and the
heaviness of sensible knowledge (relative wisdom), just as their Catholic
counterparts would pass from the brightness of sensual beauty (absolute evil)
and the lightness of sensual truth (absolute folly) to the brightness of
sensible beauty (absolute good) and the lightness of sensible truth (absolute
wisdom).
7. And in passing from sensual beauty and truth
to their sensible counterparts, Catholics would be damned from the noumenal Daughter (commensurate with the Risen Virgin) to
the noumenal Mother (commensurate with the most
sacred - or elemental wavicle - heart of the Second
Coming) and saved from the noumenal Father
(commensurate with 'the Father' of New Testament reference) to the noumenal Son (commensurate with the soulful aspect, viz.
Holy Soul of Heaven, of the Second Coming), while Protestants, in passing from
sensual strength and knowledge to their sensible counterparts, would be damned
from the phenomenal Daughter (commensurate with Nonconformist or 'free church'
Protestantism) to the phenomenal Mother (commensurate with a 'new purgatory' of
Social Transcendentalist strength) and saved from the phenomenal Father
(commensurate with that which, as Anglicanism, stands in Established allegiance
at the base of an inverted triangle of so-called 'Protestant solidarity') to the
phenomenal Son (commensurate with a 'new earth' of Social Transcendentalist
knowledge).
8. Either way, whether one's fate is to be
damned or saved to noumenal or phenomenal orders of
sensibility in 'Kingdom Come', the outcome would be the rebirth of civilization
and culture and the downgrading and even marginalization (within reason) of
those forms of barbarism and philistinism which typify 'heathenistic
modernity' and the triangular norms which constitute the basis of freedom.
9. Thus freedom, far from being something to
revel-in, after the fashion of morally ignorant crooks and/or sinners, is
something to be saved and/or damned from, according to gender (real or
effective) to the graces and punishments of that more sensible arrangement of
society which we have equated with 'Kingdom Come'.
10. Obviously not all peoples can be saved and/or
damned to moral righteousness (virtue) in binding, whether directly (to male
self) or indirectly (to constraints upon female not-self), at this point in
time, which is why I have 'chosen' or earmarked the Gaelic countries
principally of Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man, and even Wales to
democratically take a lead in this respect (not least of all in relation to the
prospect of a united Ireland achieved on the basis of their overall federation
under a 'God-King', viz. the Second Coming), since they are generally more
favoured, both climatically and culturally, to take such a lead in the first
place.
11. Many are called (to life) but few are chosen
(for Eternity), and that is as it should be, bearing in mind that one requires
a capacity for sensibility that would be quite lacking in those persons or
peoples habituated to a more sensual climate, who worship - effectively if not
literally - the sun in consequence, and would be unwilling and even unable to
turn against their sensual grains and embrace not simply sensibility but, where
applicable, new and higher orders of sensibility to boot!
12. Most of the world is not in a position, alas,
where such a resolve could reasonably be inferred. But we should not allow that to deter us from
pressing ahead with what we - as Gaels - are mostly capable of; for unless we
take a lead, few if any peoples will eventually be in a position to follow.
APPENDIX
1. I am Alpha and Omega, or the Beginning and
the End ... of 'Kingdom Come' - the Beginning ... of the Mother in the most
sacred will of metachemical sensibility, and the End
... of the Son in the most sacred soul of metaphysical sensibility - heart and
lungs of the ultimate civilization and culture, as especially germane to what
would be the administrative aside to and top tier of the triadic Beyond.
2. I am that which is First and Last - the
First Cause ... of 'Kingdom Come' as germane to what would become, following a
majority mandate for religious sovereignty by the 'chosen' peoples, the
administrative aside to the triadic Beyond, and the Last Effect ... of 'Kingdom
Come' in relation to the top tier of the Beyond in question.
3. I am both the Unclear Will of a New-Hell
Mother and the Holy Soul of a New-Heaven Son, as well as that which approves of
the coming to pass, at lower-tier levels of the triadic Beyond, of phenomenal
sensibility in both womb and brain, as germane to the Unclear Spirit of a
New-Purgatory Mother and the Holy Ego of a New-Earth Son.
4. Thus there is provision for both a noumenal Mother and Son, corresponding to Alpha and Omega,
Hell and Heaven, and a phenomenal Mother and Son, corresponding to purgatory
and the earth, but in either case it is the achievements of Mothers and Sons at
the expense of Daughters and Fathers which confirm the coming to pass of
civilization and culture at the expense of barbarism and philistinism, and thus
of goodness and wisdom at the expense of evil and folly.
5. This is why there must be a 'Kingdom' beyond
the world and overworld of 'heathenistic
modernity', with its triangular deference to evil and folly, barbarism and
philistinism, by both Catholics and Protestants alike.
6. For I am that which offers the possibility
of deliverance from the blessed evil of barbarism (direct freedom of females)
and the cursed folly of philistinism (indirect freedom of males) to the damned
goodness of civilization (indirect binding of females) and the saved wisdom of
culture (direct binding of males), should the chosen peoples of the
aforementioned Gaelic countries be permitted the paradoxical opportunity at
some future time - identified by me with 'Judgement' - to vote for religious
sovereignty and put the vicious crimes and/or sins of the sensual status quo
officially behind them for the virtuous punishments and/or graces, depending by
and large on gender, of the sensible alternative society which, being
commensurate with 'Kingdom Come', would be pledged to uphold the hegemony of goodness
and wisdom over evil and folly, come what may!
7. Let the chosen peoples dwell on this
possibility, and then may they come to a moral solution to their immoral
predicaments in due course, thus opting to exchange, democratically and
peaceably, the crimes of the Daughters and the sins of the Fathers for the
punishments of the Mothers and the graces of the Sons, as right eclipses wrong
along all the pathways to 'the Kingdom' for all Eternity and, no matter how
many backslidings or how difficult the going may be for creatures rooted in
sensuality, the way is set, under the guiding truth of Social
Transcendentalism, for man's overcoming in the triadic Beyond, as humanism
subordinates itself, together with nonconformism, to
the leadership of transcendentalism, and thus to that which accords with
godliness and a religious ne plus ultra in consequence!
LONDON
2001 (Revised 2012)
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