SPENGLER

Spengler distinguished between

'Culture' and 'Civilization', as regarding

Church and state or, more correctly,

The period of religious man

And the period of social man, corresponding

To my distinction between atomic wavicles

And neutron and/or electron particles,

Blessed being and cursed doing.

Before 'Culture' there is only

'Historyless Chaos', or barbarism, and

After the decline of 'Civilization' ...

The possibility of what Spengler calls

'Second Religiousness', corresponding

To the flowering of a new culture,

Which I equate with the Second Coming,

The resurrection of religion

On the highest wavicle terms

Of the free-electron Centre,

Not a matter of confession and prayer,

But of contemplation and meditation,

With a superconscious rather than a conscious bias,

A religion beyond mid-brain materialism

And the consequent worship of man by man

In the 'Civilization', a kind of Second Culture

Which should lead straight into the Millennium,

And thus to the overcoming of man

Through the post-human life forms

Of the Superbeings and Supra-beings respectively,

There no longer being any possibility

Of a 'Culture/Civilization' dichotomy ...

Since that only applies to the world of atomic man,

With particular reference to Christians,

Who would seem, in Spenglerian terminology,

To have superseded pagan civilization

While being destined for supersession

By transcendental culture, their atomicity flanked

By proton particles and electron wavicles -

Alpha and omega of human evolution.