APPENDIX:A SELECTION OF APHORISMS
1. A dualistic civilization can only tolerate
truth in small doses, or diluted by illusion.
2. Women are society's natural conservatives -
impeding change.
3. The Devil may have
created woman, but man will create God (the Holy Spirit).
4. Women are akin to stars ... in that they
attract men to themselves. However,
their children shine, like moons, with a borrowed light - the light of maternal
authority.
5. Man may be a slave of nature but he is also
a rebel against it, and one day he will be its master, becoming supernatural.
6. Increasingly man will turn from natural
drugs to artificial drugs. He will
prefer upward self-transcendence in spirituality to downward self-transcendence
in sensuality.
7. What, in physiological terms, the new brain is
to the old one, in psychological terms the superconscious
is to the subconscious.
8. Evolution proceeds from the Alpha
Absolute(s) to the Omega Absolute via the sensual/spiritual compromise which is
man.
9. In an absolute there is no dualism whatsoever,
not even the slightest hint of an antithesis.
10. No two absolutes could be farther apart than
the Alpha, which is Manifold, and the Omega, which will be One. They signify the extremes of evolution, and
are accordingly antithetical in every respect.
11. Post-dualistic man won't confound the Devil
with God, or vice versa. There will be
no ambivalence or ambiguity in his religious sense.
12. The Devil exists,
but God is in the making - a potential culmination to evolution rather than an
existent fact.
13. There is no reason why atheism should prevent
one from believing in the Devil. For the
Devil most certainly exists - albeit in the non-figurative guise of stars.
14. Evolution is a journey, so to speak, from the
unclear light of stars to the clear light of transcendent spirit.
15. Christ is a relative, anthropomorphic deity
relevant to an egocentric stage of evolution.
16. A Christian is entitled to claim that God
exists, insofar as he is referring to the god of the Christians, viz. Jesus
Christ. But this relative deity is a
long way from being the absolute divinity of ... the Omega Absolute.
17. The natural state of
relations between the sexes is normally one of disharmony, not harmony, since
women are less spiritual but more sensual than men.
18. In the so-called war
of the sexes, men are slowly gaining the upper-hand. One day they will
effectively vanquish women altogether.
19. Small minds invariably find genius abhorrent.
20. Technology will be the materialistic means
via which the spiritual end ... of transcendence ... may be attained.
21. Without the
assistance of advanced technology, no amount of meditation will carry one's
spirit to the transcendental Beyond - the salvation which will come to pass at
the culmination of evolution rather than in any posthumous heaven.
22. The traditional
doing of the West will be placed in the service of the traditional being of the
East as, increasingly in the future, East and West come together into one
civilization - the transcendental civilization of post-dualistic man.
23. To live for the mere
sake of living, without reference to the evolutionary struggle and its moral
implications, is to live not as a man but as a beast - uncivilized, and
therefore wild.
24. These days women are becoming so masculinized ... that it is expedient both to regard and
treat them as men - albeit lesser ones.
25. The cult of unisex is but a reflection of the
post-dualistic development of contemporary society. So, to a lesser extent, is the growth of
homosexuality.
26. Pornography, in encouraging sexual
sublimation, is a transitional phenomenon coming in-between literal sex and the
eventual complete overcoming of sex ... in post-dualistic transcendentalism.
27. Nietzsche wrote that 'Man is something that
should be overcome', which is true. But
before he overcomes himself, man must first overcome woman ... in accordance
with the post-dualistic requirements of evolutionary progress.
28. When the natural body has been superseded by
an artificial support-and-sustain system for the brain, then man or, rather,
his superhuman successor will be in the highest phase of earthly evolution - a
phase in which essence will preponderate over appearance to such an extent ...
that one might characterize it as supermasculine.
29. What essentially distinguishes a man from a
woman isn't so much the brain ... as the psychology imposed upon it by the
body's sex. Thus a woman's brain would
become masculine or, at any rate, less feminine if deprived of a female body.
30. One is a 'he' or a 'she' because one isn't an
absolute but a combination of sensual (feminine) and spiritual (masculine)
elements. An absolute can only be an
'it'.
31. The relative,
anthropomorphic god of the Christians, viz. Jesus Christ, is necessarily a
'he', since He is relevant to a dualistic stage of evolution. The literal, absolute deity that should
emerge from the climax to evolution will be an 'it' - as suggested by the term
'the Holy Spirit'.
32. Hence if the Devil is an 'it' because of its
absolute sensuality, God will be an 'it' because of its absolute spirituality -
the former, remember, as the stars, and therefore Manifold; the latter as
transcendent spirit, and therefore One.
33. Every development which makes for greater
unity in the world - and therefore greater world unity - should be encouraged;
for it is good.
34. Socialism is the material foundation upon
which the erection of the transcendental civilization will take place.
35. By itself socialism can't lead to the
transcendental Beyond. It can only lead
to millennial civilization, since it is a materialistic phenomenon, and where
materialism ends the spirit must take over.
36. We haven't ceased being idealistic. We have simply decided to apply a more
realistic approach to our idealism.
37. Realism is of little account unless,
ultimately, it serves the cause of idealism.
38. The post-human(ist) millennium will signify the maximum spiritual striving
to attain to the transcendental Beyond. A time when men will be free from materialism and able to attend to
the exclusive cultivation of spirit which their advanced technology had made
possible.
39. The post-human
millennium will be the higher phase of the transcendental civilization, the
lower phase being a combination of socialism and transcendentalism - in other
words, Social Transcendentalism.
40. The totalitarian socialism between the end of
dualistic civilization and the beginning of post-dualistic civilization ... is
the new barbarism - a largely communist phenomenon traditionally.
41. Civilization begins where barbarism ends -
with the adoption of a relevant religion.
42. Pre-dualistic civilization was pagan,
dualistic civilization is Christian, and post-dualistic civilization will be
transcendental - an evolutionary progression from the Father to the Holy Spirit
via Christ, Who, while being 'Three in One', and thus dualistic, is less alpha
than the Father and less omega than the Holy Spirit.
43. The Father is a
Christian euphemism for the infernal Creator, i.e. the Devil, in response to
the diluted truth of dualism.
44. But, being dualistic, Christianity sometimes
eschews the Father in favour of an antithesis between Satan and Christ - the
former taking the place of the Father and the latter that of the Holy Spirit.
45. Our modern endeavour to prolong human life is
indicative of an evolutionary struggle towards eternity.
46. At death the spirit ceases because it is
defeated by the mortality of the flesh.
We, however, wish to save the spirit but, because we lack the means,
i.e. technology, to do so at present, must be content with prolonging the flesh
as long as possible.
47. The fact that we now live longer is proof of
our growing power over the flesh.
Eventually we will live for ever, though not in this world but in the
millennial Beyond - the next one.
48. A brain artificially supported and sustained
would have a much longer life-span than one supported and sustained naturally,
in or through the flesh. Indeed, it
would probably have an indefinite life-span were it not for the fact that, at
some point in millennial time, extensively-cultivated spirit would detach
itself from the brain and soar heavenwards.
49. Until technology has been developed to a
stage where the old brain (subconscious) can be removed from the new brain (superconscious), I foresee the necessity of synthetic
hallucinogens (like LSD) being used to protect the latter from the sensuous
influence of the former.
50. The lower mystical experience of
artificially-induced visionary projections would have to precede the higher one
of concentrated self-contemplation, or absorption in the light of superconscious mind.
51. To live wholly in the superconscious
would be to live beyond egocentric reference to the personal self. It would be a prelude, on the individual
plane, to the mass absorption of spirit into the Omega Absolute.
52. To live wholly in
the superconscious would be to live without a
subconscious - in other words, to live with only a new brain.
53. By degrees, people will be led beyond
egocentricity, of whichever description, to an entirely post-egocentric phase
of evolution, in which the superconscious will be
completely free of subconscious influence and thereby able to aspire
exclusively towards transcendence.
54. Because we are still egocentric, or
recipients of subconscious/superconscious compromise,
we find it difficult to identify the self with superconscious
mind. But one day we will be the superconscious, and consequently take such an identification for granted.
55. As yet, the 'I' of egocentric reference has
more appeal to us than the higher self ... of the superconscious. This latter, when we finally come to identify
with it, will dispose us against thinking in terms of 'I'. For we will be so absorbed in the superconscious ... as to be at one with it, and therefore
indisposed to personal reference.
56. The 'I' of egocentric reference stems, on its
subconscious side, from the diabolic competitive roots of life in the
stars. Each star is a furious rival,
competing, in isolation, with other stars for mastery over a variety of
planets. But each star is also an 'it',
because wholly sensual. There can be no
'I' before the dawning of ego in dualistic compromise.
57. As a rule, women are
more prone to the 'I' than men, since of an ego under a greater degree of
subconscious influence.
58. The more a man thinks in terms of 'we' rather
than 'I' or 'they', the greater is the influence being exerted by the superconscious on his ego.
59. 'They' is especially appropriate to the
pre-dualistic egocentricity of a preponderating subconscious influence, 'I' to
the dualistic egocentricity of a subconscious/superconscious
balance, and 'we' to the post-dualistic egocentricity of a preponderating superconscious influence.
60. In the wholly superconscious
phase of evolution, however, there will be neither 'I' nor 'we' but absorption
in 'it' - the personal 'it', firstly, of one's individual superconscious,
leading, via transcendence, to the transpersonal 'it' of collective absorption
in the supreme being of the Holy Spirit.
61. Being of a supreme order - that is the
essential meaning of the Supreme Being as I conceive of it, which is to say, in
noumenal rather than phenomenal terms.
62. The highest art is ever an attempt to
approximate the mind to a state of being which transcends egocentric selfhood.
63. Even the greatest art, insofar as it
manifests in appearances and enters consciousness from without, is strictly
limited in the extent to which it can provoke upward self-transcendence.
64. The internal stimulus of mind-expanding drugs
is far more efficacious in facilitating upward self-transcendence than the
external stimulus of art, for the simple reason that it acts directly upon the
psyche from inside rather than indirectly ... from outside.
65. Art is the paradoxical employment of symbolic
or beautiful appearances, in materialism, to facilitate the cultivation of
essence, in spirit, and is accordingly strictly limited in scope.
66. Only by directly affecting the mind from
within, through synthetic drugs, can greater degrees (in relation to art) of
upward self-transcendence be achieved.
67. The more men develop
essence, the less they can have to do with appearance. From dependence on beautiful appearances in
art, men will gravitate to the much higher contemplation of the beauty within
themselves, as set free by synthetic stimulants.
68. As evolution
progresses, so man will free himself from the sensuous influence of natural
drugs by subscribing to their gradual curtailment.
69. Tomorrow's world won't be one to encourage
the consumption of tobacco, alcohol, tea, cannabis, or any of the stronger
natural drugs (narcotics) which, by their very sensuous nature, appeal to the
subconscious. Tomorrow's world will be
geared to the superconscious, and thus only to
artificial drugs (synthetic hallucinogens).
70. The higher the
civilization or stage of evolution, the more the artificial prevails in life.
71. The most complete
artificiality of the highest civilization will ultimately free man from nature
altogether, enabling his extensively-cultivated spirit to break away, in a rush
of ultimate deliverance, from the last vestiges of the brain and so become
supernatural.
72. The supernatural will be formless but
probably very extensive, considering that it will be compounded of all the
spirit throughout the Universe which was capable of transcendence.
73. That evolution progresses approximately apace
throughout the Universe ... is a more credible hypothesis, in my view, than one
suggesting the contrary.
74. Just as an advanced world is one in which
both inhabitants and geographical areas are universally known, so, I contend,
would an advanced universe be one in which both inhabitants and planets were
universally known. Such an advanced
universe isn't within human range at present, however.
75. The converse of a
gradual contraction of the natural world, both on a planetary and a cosmic
scale, is the gradual expansion of the spiritual one in the realm of human
life. Thus the Universe expands
spiritually while contracting physically - just like a human being.
76. An indefinite expansion of spirit throughout
the Universe is the prime condition of evolutionary progress. Man will expand spiritually into God, and the
Holy Spirit expand in the void of limitless space.
77. The Universe will never be perfect so long as
a single star remains.
78. Human evolution tends to the gradual
perfection not only of the world (a relative perfection) but, ultimately, of
the entire universe.
79. When there is nothing but a unified clear
light of pure spirit in existence, then and only then will the Universe be
perfect, and the goal of evolution accordingly have been achieved.
80. It is more probable that 'globes' of
transcendent spirit from one part of the Universe will gradually converge
towards and expand into similar 'globes' of it from other parts, than simply
achieve an outright centralized unity in the Universe immediately following
transcendence.
81. Thus one may speculate that the journey
towards ultimate spiritual unity will happen by degrees even on the
transcendent plane, given the spatial immensity of the Universe.
82. Now if this were so, then the supreme being ... of the Omega Point (de Chardin)
would only be established when all separate 'globes' of spirit throughout the
Universe had converged towards one another and achieved an indivisible
unity.
83. This unity, however, would continue to expand
in accordance with the blissful condition of ultimate being, so that the
Universe slowly became increasingly perfect, ever more filled, so to speak,
with the divine presence alone.
84. From the Primal
Creator to the Ultimate Creation - evolution as a journey from the stellar
Almighty to the spiritual Supreme Being, which is still a long way from
completion at present.
85. Nevertheless we can console ourselves in the
knowledge that we are closer to the divine climax of evolution than any
previous generation has ever been. We
may not yet have arrived at the best, but we are certainly over the worst. For the worst is
subservience to nature, including cosmic pantheism, and we are slowly becoming
its master.
86. We will eventually cease being dependent on
sensuous food and, with the assistance of advanced technology, exclusively dedicate ourselves to the cultivation of spiritual food.
87. Elevated to so many static units of potential
transcendence, we will be free of crops and animals and all the other natural
offspring of the infernal creative force.
88. To throw off our natural chains and embrace
the freedom of transcendentalism - that is the chief raison
d'être of progressive man!
89. The higher spiritual men aren't ones to spend
too much time in the company of females.
Rather, it is the lower physical males who tend to be the slaves of
women, victims of both their sensual dominance and physical beauty.
90. These maxims are like intellectual mirrors in
which the reader may perceive his mental self reflected back at him according
to his opinion of them.
91. Politics isn't the only sphere of life in
which reactionaries can be found. There
are also religious reactionaries, social reactionaries, sexual reactionaries,
aesthetic reactionaries, scientific reactionaries, gastronomic reactionaries
... indeed, reactionaries in virtually every sphere of
life. And, as reactionaries, they
approximate to 'the chaff' rather than to 'the wheat'.
92. The business of temporal judgements en route
to the millennial Beyond ... is to divide 'the chaff' from 'the wheat' and
vanquish them as enemies of progress.
93. The twentieth century corresponds, in a
manner of speaking, to the Age of the Last Judgement, in which 'chaff' are all
the time being divided from 'wheat' in the interests of evolutionary progress.
94. The 'Second Coming' corresponds not to the
literal return of Christ (who died 2000 years ago in the
95. The 'Second Coming' has reference to the
arrival of a new spiritual leader to take over from where the old one(s) left
off, and thereby signify the continuation of religious evolution on a higher
plane - namely the plane of post-dualistic transcendentalism.
96. The ultimate messiah doesn't speak in terms
of man but in terms of God. He is beyond
anthropomorphism and therefore can't be personally worshipped as God, since all
worship indicates subservience to the given, whereas he is only interested in
furthering the becoming until it achieves total being.
97. But if he is beyond
dualistic idolatry, and implacably opposed to alpha fundamentalism, he is for
transcendental liberation, and would have men aspire towards the goal of pure
spirit through spiritual self-realization as a matter of course.
98. He points the way towards the Omega Absolute,
which will ultimately reside, beyond the post-human millennium, in the
transcendental Beyond, the Beyond-of-Beyonds set not
on earth but in space, and thus beyond any
'heaven on earth' to which the combined efforts of social and religious
progress should be directed.
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