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.