AS IN THE BEGINNING, SO ANTITHETICALLY IN THE END

1. The dividing line between idiocy and genius can be very thin, in fact little more than an elastic band or a thong, as when long hair hangs loose in the one instance and is tied together in a ponytail in the other, the former approximating to the id-self and the latter to the soul-self, alpha and omega of the self in relation to hair.

2. One fancies that the man with long hair hanging loose would prefer, or should be of a mind, to drink out of a bottle than a can, whereas his ponytailed counterpart would or should prefer direct recourse to a can, each of them outside the worldly parameters of glasses and cups/and or mugs.

3. It would also be logically consistent for the one to prefer the use of a scooping fork with his dinner and for the other, less of an idiot than a genius, to prefer to wield a spoon, neither of them much partial to the use of knife and fork.

4. One would expect to see the loosely long-haired person lounging around in parks and his ponytailed antithesis sitting in close proximity to some fountain and/or plant(s) in a shopping centre, perhaps consuming a non-alcoholic drink from a can (at any rate if he is of a more than communistic persuasion and is accordingly glad to leave 'worldly alcohol' in its most attenuated presentation well alone).

5. Not least significant of the distinctions between 'the idiot' and 'the genius' would be the preference for tapes, both audio and video, on the part of the former and for CDs and/or DVDs on the part of the latter, whom one would expect to sport a ponytail and to be sufficiently centripetal as to be above or beyond Jazz.

6. For it is not the id, remember, which is of especial relevance to 'the genius' but the soul, and consequently he will be loathe to entertain anything which is likely to 'jerk him off' in blatantly alpha-oriented fashion.

7. Returning to 'the Garden' is not on his agenda, for he is one who looks forward to the paradise to come rather than back towards the ancient paradise, which tends to be identified with nature and the most 'scenic' or 'exotic' manifestations of nature in particular.

8. It is in 'the Garden' that long hair hangs loosely, and that instinct is granted maximum prominence as people continue to be held spellbound by the beauty of natural appearances, perceiving life in overly libertarian terms.

9. Not so in 'the Centre' of millennial futurity, where a centralized ponytail would be virtually de rigueur for those who were truly 'up to it', third-tier type people (albeit with a fringe for females), and the soul is granted maximum prominence as people defer to the truth of subnatural essences, conceiving of life in overly conservative terms.

10. Neither the relative libertarianism of the 'worldly strong' nor the relative conservatism of the 'worldly knowledgeable' greatly appeal to our self-obsessed extremes - the id-oriented 'idiot' and the soul-oriented 'genius' - for they are as alpha and omega to that which comes in between.

11. However, much as it would take a poor view of idiots, the triadic Beyond would not be a context in which relatively libertarian and relatively conservative people had no place, for not everyone can be ultra-conservative, and the advocate of 'Kingdom Come' would be less than fair to himself if he excluded those who come in between 'the idiot' and 'the genius' from the Beyond in question, bearing in mind the necessity of a comprehensive structure if justice is to be done not only to those who are entitled to top-tier status, but to the generality of lower-class persons for whom anything more than massed mass or voluminous volume, whether in nonconformist, humanist, or transcendentalist terms, would be completely irrelevant.

12. But more irrelevant than spaced space in nonconformist, humanist, and transcendentalist terms for the commonality of persons in relation to the triadic Beyond of 'Kingdom Come' ... would be the idiocy of the id-self and all that which clings to religious or cultural tradition of the most primitive and superstitious kind.

13. For what pertains to the one type of paradise is completely irrelevant to the other, even though that which was in the Beginning, namely the self, is and ever shall be also in the End, both the phenomenal end of history and the noumenal end of eternity in which not the id but the soul is the sovereign manifestation of the self, and all else must bow to the reign of that which, in its joyful being, justifies divine truth and stands as the eternal refutation of the beautiful lie.

14. Thus does the philosopher vanquish the poet from the ultimate eternity, as the genius of his soul takes its rightful place at the head of those who, in their dramatic or narrative leanings, are destined to defer to that which is the literary ne plus ultra of things and guide to those who, while lacking true genius, are anything but idiots!

15. And with the light excluded, 'the dark' and 'the heavy' will approach, on their own respective terms, the compelling lightness of the philosopher's beingful genius and take from it that which will bring to their darkness and their heaviness, their giving and their taking, a lighter tone.