76. Formerly
I would have thought along the following diagrammatic lines:-
COMMUNISM
CAPITALISM-----------CENTRISM
(Extreme Left)
(Right) (Extreme Right)
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SOCIALISM
(Left)
Now I think as follows:-
COMMUNISM
CAPITALISM CENTRISM
(Extreme Left)
(Right) (Extreme Right)
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SOCIALISM
(Left)
a diagram which would suggest that
Capitalism does not lead to Centrism but remains isolated in its lunar limbo,
while Socialism leads to Centrism ... as a matter of progressive course. Clearly, to the extent that one uses Left/Right
distinctions, it is apparent that 'Left' is bureaucratic, and hence worldly,
whereas 'Right' is democratic, and hence purgatorial. Similarly, it is just as apparent that
'Extreme Left' is autocratic, and hence diabolic, whereas 'Extreme Right' is
theocratic, and hence divine. Regarding
the elements in such terms would suggest that whereas fire was Extreme Left and
earth Left, water was Right and air Extreme Right, or that whereas naturalism
was Extreme Left and realism Left, materialism was Right and idealism Extreme
Right. An idealist is therefore, ipso facto, an extreme right-wing type of person, in complete
contrast to a naturalist, who is extreme left wing. Likewise, a realist is inherently a left-wing
type of person, in contrast to a materialist, who is right wing. The Father is Extreme Left (superstar), but
the Mother is Left (star). The Son is
Right (cross), but the Holy Spirit is Extreme Right (supercross). Therefore Hell is Extreme Left, in complete
contrast to Heaven as Extreme Right. The
world is Left in contrast to purgatory as Right. Thus whereas the solar is
Extreme Left and the planetary (planar) Left, the lunar is Right and the
stellar Extreme Right. Heat is
Extreme Left, but darkness Left.
Coldness is Right, but light Extreme Right. For God, who is Extreme Right, the Devil is
Extreme Left. For the Antidevil (Christ), who is Right, the Antigod
(Mother) is Left. Indeed, Christ is
equivalent to the Antidevil in contrast to the
Father, while the Mother is equivalent to the Antigod
in contrast to the Holy Spirit. Christ
is coldness vis-à-vis heat. The Mother
is darkness vis-à-vis light. That is
why, from a divine standpoint, the world must be overcome; for the world is
commensurate with the Mother (nature), and hence the darkness,
and the darkness must be eliminated before the light can prevail. For the Divine not to see itself in terms of
Extreme Right would be a moral failing of the most paradoxical and illogical
kind! Everything must end on the Extreme
Right, for that is salvation.
77i. The
use of terms like air/light to describe the Divine is an extreme left-wing
tendency; the use of terms like idealism/wit to describe the Divine is a
left-wing tendency; the use of words like truth/joy to describe the Divine is a
right-wing tendency; and the use of words like the Holy Ghost/Heaven to
describe the Divine is an extreme right-wing tendency. Thus from the alpha of
air/light usage to the omega of Holy Spirit/Heaven usage via the mundane and
lunar usages of idealism/wit and truth/joy respectively.
ii. Similarly, the use of terms like fire/heat
to describe the Diabolic is an extreme left-wing tendency; the use of terms
like naturalism/soul to describe the Diabolic is a left-wing tendency; the use
of terms like strength/pride to describe the Diabolic is a right-wing tendency;
and the use of terms like Father/Hell to describe the Diabolic is an extreme
right-wing tendency. Thus from the alpha of fire/heat usage
to the omega of Father/Hell usage via the mundane and lunar usages of
naturalism/soul and strength/pride respectively.
iii. Likewise, the use of terms like
earth/darkness to describe the worldly is an extreme left-wing tendency; the
use of terms like realism/will to describe the worldly is a left-wing tendency;
the use of terms like beauty/pleasure to describe the worldly is a right-wing
tendency; and the use of terms like the Mother/the World to describe the
worldly is an extreme right-wing tendency.
Thus from the alpha of earth/darkness usage to the
omega of mother/world usage via the mundane and lunar usages of realism/will
and beauty/pleasure respectively.
iv. Finally, the use of terms like
water/coldness to describe the purgatorial is an extreme left-wing tendency;
the use of terms like materialism/intellect to describe the purgatorial is a
left-wing tendency; the use of terms like goodness/love to describe the
purgatorial is a right-wing tendency; and the use of terms like the
Son/Purgatory to describe the purgatorial is an extreme right-wing tendency. Thus from the alpha of
water/coldness usage to the omega of son/purgatory usage via the mundane and
lunar usages of materialism/intellect and goodness/love respectively.
78i. Being
uncivilized/insane corresponds to the Extreme Left; being barbarous/mad
corresponds to the Left; being civilized/sane corresponds to the Right; being supercivilized/supersane corresponds to the Extreme Right.
ii. Hence whereas the use of extreme left-wing
terms like fire/heat, earth/darkness, water/coldness, and air/light corresponds
to the uncivilized/insane, the use of left-wing terms like naturalism/soul,
realism/will, materialism/ intellect, and idealism/wit corresponds to the
barbarous/mad.
iii. Now whereas the use of right-wing terms like
strength/pride, beauty/pleasure, goodness/love, and truth/joy corresponds to
the civilized/sane, the use of extreme right-wing terms like the Father/Hell,
the Mother/the World, the Son/Purgatory, and the Holy Ghost/Heaven corresponds
to the supercivilized/supersane.
iv. Religion gets the better of science no less
than politics the better of economics.
For whereas religion is supercivilized/supersane,
science is uncivilized/insane. And
whereas politics is civilized/sane, economics is
barbarous/mad.
79. How
one looks at life, that is to say, whether from a predominantly alpha, mundane,
lunar, or an omega viewpoint, will determine one's choice of terminology. Hence while the alpha-stemming and extreme
left-wing type of person will prefer words like fire, earth, water, and air,
not to mention their noumenal concomitants, the
omega-oriented and extreme right-wing type of person will prefer to use words
like Father, Mother, Son, and Holy Ghost, together with their noumenal concomitants. Similarly, while the mundane and left-wing
type of person will prefer words like naturalism, realism, materialism and
idealism, together with their noumenal concomitants,
the lunar and right-wing type of person will favour words like strength,
beauty, goodness, and truth, together with their noumenal concomitants. For while the extreme left-wing type of
person (diabolic) is governed by soul, the extreme right-wing type of person
(divine) will be inspired by spirit. Hence a scientific/religious antithesis. Likewise, while the left-wing type of person
(mundane) is governed by bodily will, the right-wing type of person (lunar)
will be inspired by intellect. Hence an economic/political antithesis. So a fundamentalist/transcendentalist
antithesis between the scientific and the religious finds its phenomenal
parallel in the mundane/lunar antithesis between the economic and the
political. Whereas the fundamentalist
person will reduce everything to science, the transcendentalist person will
strive to elevate everything to religion.
And whereas the mundane person will reduce everything to economics, the
lunar person will strive to elevate everything to politics. Thus whereas fundamentalist persons will
speak of the alpha, say, in terms of fire/heat, transcendentalist persons will
speak of it in terms of the Father/Hell.
And whereas mundane persons will speak of the alpha in terms of
naturalism/soul, lunar persons will speak of it in terms of
strength/pride. Hence a struggle between
elemental supernature and transcendental culture on
the one hand, with a like-struggle between mundane nature and lunar
civilization on the other hand - supernature
corresponding to science and culture to religion; nature corresponding to
economics and civilization to politics.
What Spengler calls 'Historyless
Chaos', I would call Supernature. And what he calls 'Culture', I would call
Nature. What Spengler
calls 'Civilization', I would also call Civilization. But what he calls 'Second Religiousness', I
would call Culture. Hence
from the superstar of scientific Supernature to the
star of economic Nature, and from the cross of political Civilization to the supercross of religious Culture. Yet, for me, the cross of political
Civilization is a lunar blind alley corresponding to the inner conceptual. It does not lead to the supercross
of religious Culture, and thus to the inner perceptual. Culture stems not from Civilization but from
Nature, and thus it is from the star of economic Nature, or necessity, that the
supercross of religious Culture will stem, to blossom
into the soft inner light of the Holy Spirit.
80i. From a civilized standpoint Nature is barbarous, while from
a natural standpoint Civilization is ... unnatural. From a supernatural standpoint Nature is
mundane, while from a natural standpoint Supernature
is fundamentalist. From a cultural
standpoint Nature is sinful, while from a natural standpoint Culture is
transcendental. Nature is only natural
from the standpoint of Nature, not from the standpoints of Supernature
(the Father), Civilization (the Son), or Culture (the Holy Spirit).
ii. Likewise Civilization is only civilized
from the standpoint of Civilization.
From the standpoints of Supernature, Nature,
and Culture it is anti-natural, unnatural, and artificial respectively.
iii. Similarly, Supernature
is only supernatural in relation to itself.
For in relation to Nature, Civilization, and Culture it is
fundamentalist, uncivilized, and occult respectively.
iv. Finally, Culture is only cultural in
relation to itself. In relation to Supernature, Nature, and Civilization it is mystical,
transcendental, and supercivilized respectively.
81i. Hence
while Nature is barbarous from the standpoint of Civilization, it is sinful
from the standpoint of Culture. From the
standpoint of Supernature, by contrast, it is simply
mundane.
ii. Hence while
Culture is mystical from the standpoint of Supernature,
it is supercivilized from the standpoint of
Civilization. From the standpoint of
Nature, by contrast, it is simply transcendental.
iii. Hence while
Civilization is anti-natural from the standpoint of Supernature,
it is unnatural from the standpoint of Nature.
From the standpoint of Culture, by contrast, it is simply artificial.
iv. Hence while Supernature is occult from the standpoint of Culture, it is
fundamentalist from the standpoint of Nature.
From the standpoint of Civilization, by contrast, it is simply
uncivilized.
82. Let
us speak, from a cultural standpoint, of the Father as autocratic, the Mother
as bureaucratic, the Son as democratic, and the Holy Spirit as alone
theocratic. Let us also admit to the
fact that whilst autocracy is upper class and bureaucracy lower class,
democracy is middle class and theocracy classless. Hence, whereas the Father is upper class and
the Mother lower class, the Son is middle class and the Holy Spirit
classless. Thus whilst a class-bound
society is rooted in the autocratic, viz. the Father, a classless society will
be centred in the theocratic, viz. the Holy Spirit. Autocracy is class-bound, but theocracy classless. Freedom from class is only possible on the
basis of theocratic allegiance, and such an allegiance is necessarily to the
Holy Spirit, not to the Father, the Mother, or to the Son. Hence one cannot be free from class unless
one is bound to the Holy Spirit in theocratic allegiance. Those who are bound to the Father will simply
be upper class. Those who are bound to
the Mother will simply be lower class.
And those who are bound to the Son will simply be middle class. Broadly speaking, the majority of Catholics
are lower class, while the majority of Protestants are middle class. In fact, it could be argued that whereas
Catholicism is a lower-class religion, Protestantism, by contrast, is a
middle-class religion. Thus while
Catholicism is a Christianity of the People, Protestantism, its hereditary
opponent, is a Christianity of the bourgeoisie.
For proletarian Christianity is rooted in the Mother, whereas bourgeois
Christianity is centred in the Son - a distinction between the will and the
intellect, or the world and purgatory.
And yet while Catholicism is rooted in the Mother, and hence in
lower-class affiliation, it embraces an aspiration for the Holy Spirit which
lifts it towards the classless in hope of the Resurrection and consequent
salvation from the world, i.e. working-class affiliation and enslavement under
the twin yokes of autocratic and democratic exploitation, yokes originally
placed upon the lower class by both the upper and middle classes, though
particularly, in this day and age, the latter, who are the class, par excellence, of Protestant
Christianity, and hence capitalism.
83. For
the working class to become classless, all that is necessary is for them to
have the opportunity of voting for religious sovereignty through the Second Coming,
and thereby enter the 'Kingdom of Heaven' ... of the Social Transcendentalist
Centre, wherein theocratic allegiance will 'come clean' on the most
unequivocally transcendental terms, terms which signify complete identification
with the Holy Spirit, and hence the inner light. For whereas the working class are affiliated
to the outer darkness ... of phenomenal conceptions, the classless are
affiliated to the inner light of noumenal
perceptions, which is the condition of Heaven.
84. From
the beauty of phenomenal outer conceptions to the truth of noumenal
inner perceptions, from the pleasure of the outer darkness to the joy of the
inner light; from the Blessed Virgin to the Holy Spirit, from working-class
bureaucracy to classless theocracy; from sculpture to art, earth to air; from
the midi to the computer, from will to spirit.
But, conversely, from the goodness of phenomenal inner conceptions to
the strength of noumenal outer perceptions, from the
love of the inner darkness to the pride of the outer light; from the Son to the
Father, from middle-class democracy to upper-class autocracy; from literature
to music, water to fire; from the radio-cassette player to the television, from
intellect to soul. Thus,
in the one case, an evolutionary salvation, but, in the other case, a
devolutionary damnation. The
respective fates, one feels, of Catholics and Protestants in
85. In relation to modern music, soul is upper
class, pop lower class, rock middle class, and jazz classless.
Hence one could speak of the upper-class nature of percussion-oriented
music, the lower-class nature of guitar-oriented music, the middle-class nature
of keyboards-oriented music, and the classless nature of wind-oriented
music. Drum-biased
soul, guitar-biased pop, keyboards-biased rock, and sax-biased jazz. More specifically, one should distinguish
between soulful rhythms and spiritual pitch at the alpha/omega extremes of soul
and jazz respectively, but between wilful harmonies and intellectual melodies
at the mundane/lunar extremes of pop and rock respectively. For rhythm is alpha no less than pitch is
omega, the former being autocratic and the latter theocratic, Hell and Heaven
of a musical polarity which can be characterized in terms of slowness and
speed, the respective qualities of rhythm and pitch. Likewise, harmony is mundane (planar) no less
than melody is lunar, the former being bureaucratic and the latter democratic,
world and limbo of a musical polarity which can be characterized in terms of
softness and loudness, the respective qualities of harmony and melody. Hence whereas upper-class music is primarily
slow, classless music is primarily quick - the fundamental distinction, I shall
argue, between soul and jazz. Now
whereas working-class music is primarily soft, middle-class music is primarily
loud - the fundamental distinction, I shall argue, between pop and rock. Thus while the musical hell of upper-class
soul, rooted in rhythm, burns with a slow beat, the musical heaven of classless
jazz, centred in pitch, shines with a quick run. And while the musical mundaneness
of working-class pop, rooted in harmony, moves with a
soft chord, the musical lunacy of middle-class rock, centred in melody, grooves
with a loud riff. Rock that is slow
stands closer to soul, rock that is soft stands closer to pop, rock that is
fast stands closer to jazz. But the
principal quality of rock is neither slowness and softness
nor speed, but loudness, the loudness of a lunar limbo especially germane to a
capitalist materialism and therefore congenial to Protestant civilization. If fire is slow and light quick, then earth
is quiet and water loud. Fire is the
element of rhythm no less than light is the element of pitch. Earth (soil) is the element of harmony no
less than water is the element of melody.
Rhythm is the essence of soul no less than pitch is the essence of
jazz. Harmony is the essence of pop no
less than melody is the essence of rock.
Soul is slow but jazz quick. Pop
is soft but rock loud. Slowness is no
less the musical enemy of jazz than loudness is the musical enemy of pop. Only softness leads to speed, as from the
working-class bureaucracy of pop to the classless theocracy of jazz, from
guitar harmony to wind pitch. For
softness is of the Blessed Virgin, no less than speed is of the Holy Spirit,
and from softness to speed we have a Social Transcendentalist progression
commensurate with the salvation of the People from worldly pop to heavenly
jazz. If the People are to be saved to
jazz, then the bourgeoisie can only be damned to soul. For rock is doomed to soulful damnation no
less than pop is destined for spiritual salvation.
86i. Blues stands to jazz as the Antispirit to the Holy Spirit, which is to say, as electron
particles to wavicles, woe to joy.
ii. Rhythm 'n'
blues stands to soul as the Antifather to the Father,
which is to say, as proton particles to wavicles,
humiliation to pride.
iii. Punk stands to
rock as the Antichrist to Christ, which is to say, as neutron particles to wavicles, evil to good.
iv. Funk stands to
pop as the Antimother to the Mother, which is to say,
as atomic particles to wavicles, ugliness to
pleasure. Hence a sort
of negative/positive distinction between particles and wavicles,
which is approximately commensurate with a State/Church dichotomy.
87. In
regard to religion, soul is the music of upper-class Fundamentalism; pop the
music of working-class Christianity (Catholicism); rock the music of
middle-class Christianity (Protestantism); and jazz the music of classless
Transcendentalism. In regard to
politics, rhythm 'n' blues is the music of upper-class Communism (Bolshevism);
funk the music of working-class Republicanism; punk the music of middle-class
Liberalism; and blues the music of classless Fascism. Hence a political/religious
antithesis between Communism and Fundamentalism; Republicanism and Catholicism;
Liberalism and Protestantism; and Fascism and Transcendentalism. From a Fundamentalist standpoint, Communism
is morally undesirable; from a Catholic standpoint, Republicanism is morally
undesirable; from a Protestant standpoint, Liberalism is morally undesirable;
and from a Transcendentalist standpoint, Fascism is morally undesirable. Hence Communism as a fall from Fundamentalism
(as Lenin from Marx), no less than rhythm 'n' blues from soul; Republicanism as
a fall from Catholicism, no less than funk from pop; Liberalism as a fall from
Protestantism, no less than punk from rock; and Fascism as a fall from
Transcendentalism (as Hitler from Nietzsche), no less than blues from jazz. Social Transcendentalism could musically be
described as a combination of funk and jazz, i.e. a sort of funk-jazz, with a
compromise between guitars and wind.
Economically speaking, Communism is state socialist, Republicanism
socialist, Liberalism capitalist, and Fascism state capitalist. Economics stands to politics as art to
religion. For economics is the mother of
politics, no less than art the father of religion. Put conversely, one could say that politics
is the son of economics, no less than religion the daughter of art. Economics precedes politics, art precedes
religion. Without
economics, no politics. Without
art, no religion.
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R'N'B
PUNK BLUES
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particles) (electron
particles)
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FUNK
(atomic particles)
88. The
first of the above diagrams illustrates the wavicle
(w.) and therefore essentially religious nature of soul, pop, rock, and
jazz. The second of the above diagrams illustrates
the particle (p.) and therefore fundamentally secular nature of rhythm 'n'
blues, funk, punk, and blues. The former
kinds of music are all in omega positions on their respective spectra, while
the latter kinds of music are in alpha positions there. For the secular is alpha
in relation to the religious, the State standing to the Church as alpha to
omega. Which is equivalent to saying
particles to wavicles, negativity to positivity, centrifugal to centripetal, and this whether
the State/Church dichotomy has reference to the divine spectrum (air), the
diabolic spectrum (fire), the purgatorial spectrum (water), or the worldly
spectrum (earth), viz. electrons, protons, neutrons, or atoms. Hence the Antispirit/Holy Spirit dichotomy between blues and jazz
which corresponds, on a State/Church basis, to Fascism and Transcendentalism. Hence the Antifather/Father dichotomy between rhythm 'n' blues and
soul which likewise corresponds, on a State/Church basis, to Communism and
Fundamentalism. Hence the Antichrist/Christ dichotomy between punk and rock which
corresponds, on a State/Church basis, to Liberalism and Protestantism. And hence the Antimother/Mother dichotomy between funk and pop which
likewise corresponds, on a State/Church basis, to Republicanism and
Catholicism.
89i. When
the State is theocratic it corresponds to an electron-particle equivalence, and
is therefore of the Antispirit (Fascism).
ii. When the State is autocratic it corresponds
to a proton-particle equivalence, and is therefore of the Antifather
(Communism).
iii. When the State is democratic it corresponds
to a neutron-particle equivalence, and is therefore of the Antichrist
(Liberalism).
iv. When the State is bureaucratic it
corresponds to an atomic-particle equivalence, and is therefore of the Antimother (Republicanism).
Hence an elemental devolution, one might argue, from Fascism to
Republicanism via Communism and Liberalism (Parliamentarianism).
90i. Conversely,
when the Church is bureaucratic it corresponds to an atomic-wavicle
equivalence, and is therefore of the Mother (Catholicism).
ii. When the Church is democratic it
corresponds to a neutron-wavicle equivalence, and is
therefore of the Son (Protestantism).
iii. When the Church is autocratic it corresponds
to a proton-wavicle equivalence, and is therefore of
the Father (Fundamentalism).
iv. When the Church is theocratic it corresponds
to an electron-wavicle equivalence, and is therefore
of the Holy Spirit (Transcendentalism).
Hence an elemental evolution, as it were, from
Catholicism to Transcendentalism via Protestantism and Fundamentalism.
91i. In a republic, which is a lower-class manifestation of the
State, the People are represented, whereas in a parliamentary democracy, which is
a middle-class manifestation of the State, they are governed.
ii. Hence wherever the People have triumphed
(and 'the meek' accordingly inherited that part of the earth upon which they
live), representative democracy is the order of the day, in contrast to the
governmental democracy which is the hallmark of Liberalism and of a people
under the parliamentary, or bourgeois, thumb.
iii. In a kingdom,
which is an upper-class manifestation of the State, the People are ruled,
whereas in a centre, which is a classless manifestation of the State or,
rather, that which transcends the State (in and through the Centre, as
advocated by me), the People are led.
iv. Hence wherever the upper-class are in power, authoritarian autocracy is the order of the
day, in contrast to the social theocracy which is the hallmark of the classless
Centre, the 'State of the Holy Spirit'. (In a sense, the Third Reich could be
described as a 'State of the Holy Spirit', insofar as we perceive a connection
between the State in question and the 'Third Person' of the Trinity.)
92i. In a capitalist state, or parliamentary democracy, the
People are governed in the plutocratic interests of the capitalist class.
ii. In a socialist
state, or republican democracy, the People are represented in the bureaucratic
interests of the People.
iii. In a communist
state, or authoritarian autocracy, the People are ruled in the technocratic
interests of the communist class.
iv. In a fascist
state, or totalitarian theocracy, the People are led in the meritocratic
interests of the People. Hence no less
than capitalism is the economic concomitance of Liberalism and socialism the
economic concomitance of Republicanism, communism is the economic concomitance
of Authoritarianism and fascism the economic concomitance of
Totalitarianism. For just as Liberalism
is capitalist and Republicanism socialist, so Authoritarianism is state
socialist (communist) and Totalitarianism state capitalist (fascist and/or
centrist).
93. A
bourgeois republic stands to a People's Republic as soft rock to pop, or
classics in paperback to popular paperbacks, which is to say, as a half-way
house between lunar and worldly extremes, capitalism and socialism. It tends to combine the essence of the one
with the appearance of the other, capitalism with republicanism, and is thus
more of a compromise between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat than can be
found in either parliamentary democracies or People's Republics, the former of
which are politically superior though economically inferior to it, while the
latter of which are economically superior though politically inferior to it ...
when considered in the light of the fact that politics is essentially
democratic (and hence parliamentary) whereas economics is fundamentally
bureaucratic (and hence republican).
94. From
a Fundamentalist point of view the best economic arrangement is communist,
whereas from a Transcendentalist point of view the best economic arrangement is
centrist (centre trusteeship).
Conversely, from a Protestant point of view the best economic
arrangement is capitalist, whereas from a Catholic point of view the best
economic arrangement is socialist. Thus
whereas Fundamentalism requires an authoritarian political precondition in order
to establish a communist economic base, Transcendentalism requires a
totalitarian political precondition in order to establish a centrist economic
base. And whereas Protestantism requires
a liberal political precondition in order to establish a capitalist economic
base, Catholicism requires a republican political precondition in order to
establish a socialist economic base. Yet
if politics is relatively lunar in relation to ideology and economics
relatively worldly, then law, whether scientific and natural or technological
and civil, is absolutely solar in relation to or, rather, contrast with the
stellar essence of ideology, viz. religion.
In other words, science and religion are no less antithetical than
economics and politics, and whilst ideology will strive to transcend the law
when it is truly ideological, and hence Transcendentalist, it will co-exist
with and even subordinate itself to the law when that is less than the case,
i.e. when appertaining either to relative ideology (Protestantism and
Catholicism) or to diabolical ideology (Fundamentalism). Thus while Catholic ideology will identify
with natural law and take its ethical bearings from natural law, Protestant
ideology will identify with civil law and take its ethical bearings from civil
law, using it in defence of its ideological essence. On the other hand, Fundamentalist ideology
will identify itself with supernatural law to a degree which completely
subordinates ideology to law and thus makes for the fundamentalism which is
intrinsically lawful, and hence anti-religious.
For true religion, or Transcendentalism, rejects supernatural law in
deference to its own inner essence, which is purely ideological. Whereas Transcendentalism, being truly
ideological, rejects supernatural law, Fundamentalism identifies with it to a
point where ideology is all but eclipsed by such law, in deference to what may
be called supernatural determinism. Yet
what supernatural determinism is to the free spirituality (idealism) of
Transcendentalism, natural determinism is to the free intellectuality (materialism)
of Protestantism, since Protestantism rejects natural law in favour of civil
law, which is designed to protect its material interests. Hence whereas Catholicism upholds natural
determinism in deference to its worldly will, Protestantism rejects it in
preference to the artificial freedoms of its lunar intellectuality, which are
protected by civil law. Thus although
Protestantism does not transcend the law absolutely, it transcends both natural
and supernatural law, the cross transcending both the star and the superstar of
natural (atomic) and supernatural (proton) determinism. Only the supercross
of Transcendentalism can transcend the law absolutely; for even (the neutron
determinism of) civil law would be irrelevant to its ideological purism, the
purism of the utmost transcendental (electron) freedom in the true religion of
spiritual salvation. For
spiritual salvation is inseparable from freedom from law, whether that law be
supernatural, natural, or civil - solar, worldly, or lunar. Heaven transcends the law in the spiritual
freedom of its stellar essence.
95. Science
is the method of understanding natural/supernatural law, technology the
practical application/exemplification of it.
Conversely, culture is the method of pursuing a religious end, art the
theoretical illustration of it. Thus whereas science is theoretical and technology practical,
culture is practical and art theoretical. And this because
natural/supernatural law, the study of science, is practical, while religion,
the goal of culture, is theoretical.
Hence technology mirrors the practical nature of natural/supernatural
law, no less than art mirrors the theoretical nature of religion. An art that was practical, and hence technological,
would be no less bogus than a technology that was theoretical, and hence
aesthetic. 'Technological art' is no
less a contradiction in terms than 'aesthetic technology'. But where there is no religion, and thus no
culture, there will be no art ... in the genuine sense of that term but,
rather, technology posing as art!
96. The democratic are middle class, the autocratic ... upper
class. The bureaucratic are lower class,
the theocratic ... classless. The middle
class are yobs, the upper class ... nobs. The lower class are slobs, the classless ...
snobs. Yobs are materialistic, nobs naturalistic.
Slobs are realistic, snobs idealistic.
Materialism is political, naturalism lawful. Realism is economic, idealism religious. Politics is technocratic, law
scientific. Economics is aesthetic, religion
cultural. Technology is practical,
science theoretical. Aesthetics is
theoretical, culture practical.
97. Stellar electrons, solar protons, lunar
neutrons, and planar (planetary) atoms - divine, diabolic, purgatorial, and
worldly elements in constant flux. Spirit can only be
stellar, soul solar, intellect lunar, and will planar. Although, like soul and intellect and will,
spirit can be either negative or positive, particles or wavicles,
centrifugal or centripetal, scientific or religious, depending on whether we
are dealing with antispirit or holy spirit, woe and
illusion (scientific) at one end of the divine spectrum, or joy and truth
(religious) at the other end, the end towards which all spiritual evolution on
earth would seem to tend. Hence we can
no more speak of an evolutionary return to, say, antispirit (Jehovah) than of an
evolutionary return to antisoul (Satan). We devolve from alpha but evolve towards
omega, breaking contact with, or allegiance to, the former the more
evolutionary we become. The world is the
wedge between alpha and omega, and without a fall from alpha into the world,
there would be no possibility of evolutionary progress towards omega in due
course. Hence the world is a blessing in
disguise, the means to a truly divine (electron-wavicle)
end in joyful truth.
98. No
less than the Holy Spirit is a joyful plus in relation to, or rather contrast
with, the woeful negativity of the Antispirit, so the
Father is a proud plus in relation to the humiliated negativity of the Antifather.
Likewise, no less than the Son is a loving plus in relation to the
hateful negativity of the Antichrist, so the Mother is a pleasurable plus in
relation to the painful negativity of the Antimother.
99i. Joy
follows from an electron-wavicle precondition, woe
from an electron-particle one.
ii. Pride follows from a proton-wavicle precondition, humiliation from a proton-particle
one.
iii. Love follows from a neutron-wavicle precondition, hate from a neutron-particle one.
iv. And pleasure follows from an atomic-wavicle precondition, pain from an atomic-particle one.
100i. Joy
is the inner essence of truth, no less than lightness the inner essence of air.
ii. Pride is the
inner essence of strength, no less than heaviness the inner essence of fire.
iii. Love is the
inner essence of goodness, no less than coldness the inner essence of water.
iv. Pleasure is the
inner essence of beauty, no less than darkness the inner essence of earth.
101i. Conversely,
woe is the outer essence of illusion, no less than speed the outer essence of
light.
ii. Humiliation is
the outer essence of weakness, no less than slowness the outer essence of fire.
iii. Hatred is the
outer essence of evil, no less than loudness the outer essence of water.
iv. Pain is the outer
essence of ugliness, no less than softness the outer essence of earth.
