Op. 39
TREES
Poems
Copyright © 1985-2009 John O'Loughlin
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CONTENTS
1. Super and Supra
2. Science and Theology
3. Trees
4. Less Good but Still Good
5. Loves
6. Superficial Parallel
7. Historical Value
8. Ultimate Class
9. Smoking Politics
10. Dope Smoking
11. Drinking and Smoking
12. Smoking and Sniffing
13. Dual Celebration
14. Intimation
15. Freaks
16. Discs and Tapes
17. Centrist Evolution
18. Give and Take
19. Television and Video
20. Seasons
21. Theocracy Full-blown
22. Literary Progress
23. Centrist Freedom
24. Economic Distinctions
25. Ultimate Centrist Freedom
26. Protons and Electrons
27. Overcoming Man
28. Allegiances
30. Church Absolutism
31. Sport
32. Omega Millennium
33. Behind and Beyond
34. Marriage
35. Money Wealth
36. Living Death
37. Spengler
38. Visual Arts
39. Social Theocracy
40. Anti-Life
41. Means to Ends
42. Civilized and Barbaric
43. Centrist Art/Sex
44. Saved From Thinking
45. Robot Revolution
46. Democracy and Dictatorship
47. Thoughts
48. Visions
49. Supra-naturalism
50. Theocratic and Transcendental
51. Political and Religious
52. Plays
53. Films
54. Trips
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SUPER AND SUPRA
Just as one can distinguish between
The supernatural and the supra-natural,
As between two kinds or degrees
Of theocratic indulgence, viz. a bodily and a mental,
An apparent and an essential,
So one should distinguish between
Supermen and the Supra-men
Of the coming Centrist civilization,
The former disposed to hallucinogenic enlightenment,
The latter ... to transcendental meditation;
The one preceding the other.
Then, with regard to a similar apparent/essential division
In the succeeding millennium, one should
Also distinguish between Superbeings and
the Supra-beings,
As between hypertripping brain-collectivizations
Artificially supported and sustained on the one hand,
And ... hypermeditating new-brain collectivizations
No-less artificially supported and sustained
On the other hand, a distinction which
Would confirm the evolution of millennial life
Towards the ultrabeingful spiritual
transcendences
Of the heavenly Beyond.
Whereas post-humanist life is connected with man,
Post-human life completely transcends him
In the free-electron life forms
Of Superbeings and Supra-beings
respectively.
SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY
The Creator is a fairly neutral term
That can be bent in either
A scientific or a theological direction,
With regard to the First Cause or Jehovah.
It seems to hang between these two extremes,
Though with a bias towards the latter,
As when it is employed theologically,
As though synonymous with an old, grey-bearded figure
Who rules over the Cosmos.
Personally, I don't believe in any such Creator-God,
And few but the very backward or simpleminded
Have any use, these days, for the concept
Of a Creator-God, preferring not to think
Anthropomorphically or metaphorically about
The origins and/or originator of the Universe,
Or a particular part of it, like the Galaxy.
If Jehovah is an abstraction
From some primal root-creative force,
As I have little doubt He is, then
What really exists out there, in the starry cosmos,
Isn't Jehovah but the First Cause,
And what can that be if not
The central star of each galaxy?
Yes, there is a big, powerful, ruling star
At the heart of the Galaxy,
A god-king or tree-trunk equivalent,
And that is the source, knowingly or unknowingly,
From which the theological metaphor
Of the Creator, the Ancient of Days, the Maker,
The Almighty, etc., was extrapolated,
Just as the Fallen Angel closest to us,
Namely the Sun, is the source
From which Satan was extrapolated,
Theology being entitled to regard him
As the source of all evil in the world
By dint of the closer proximity, cosmically speaking,
Of the Sun to it, a proximity
That leaves the central star of the Galaxy
Comparatively free-of-blame
And therefore entitled, in theological logic,
To preferential interpretation and greater respect,
Just as monarchs, no matter how evil or incompetent,
Have always been accorded a higher status,
And therefore greater respect, than nobles,
Particularly barons - the rank of nobleman
Most closely approximating to the Sun
And thus, by theological implication, to the Devil.
For the Sun is a very minor star
On the edge of the Galaxy,
And a baron is a very minor aristocrat,
A mere thin-branch equivalent
In that mirror of the galactic order
And blueprint for the feudal order - a tree.
TREES
The more I look at and think about trees,
The more disgusted I become!
Trees may appear beautiful and noble to some people,
Mostly country-dwellers,
But to me they are ugly and ignoble
Because indicative of tyranny and exploitation,
The leaves so many slaves of the trunk and branches
Of the tree-proper, feeding it
With energy from the sun and moisture from the air,
Leaves sucked dry by the rapacious tree.
No, I don't like trees, for I see in them
The prototype of the feudal-world-order
Of peasants exploited by aristocrats,
Whether high- or low-ranking,
And the Few accordingly thriving
At the Many's expense
In a thoroughly diabolical, subnatural
system -
One sanctioned not only by trees but,
Originally and primarily, by the stellar roots
Of evolution in the Cosmos.
What were the peasantry
In relation to their aristocratic lords -
Good, bad, less bad?
Probably 'less bad' is
The most objective description
Of a class implicated in a pagan absolutism
And corresponding, in their subjection,
To planets and leaves.
One might say demons as opposed to devils,
And to anyone who looks at a tree objectively,
Rather than through the distorting lens
Of a feudal sympathy, leaves must appear demonic
And branches positively devilish.
As to the trunk, 'divine' could only
Be applied to it in the very relative,
Spiritually fundamentalist sense of Creator,
As when one distinguishes Jehovah from Satan
Or king from peers.
So anyone with the least shred
Of spiritual subjectivity would have no option
But to perceive in it
The theocratic autocracy
That gets the lion's share of the booty,
Since bigger and stronger than everything else.
LESS GOOD BUT STILL GOOD
Just as peasants in a traditional feudal system
Were less bad than the aristocracy
But still bad, so, conversely, the meritocracy
In a revolutionary Centrist system would be
Less good than the superfolk but still
good,
And therefore not identifiable with tyranny
Or its attenuated bourgeois successor
In ... parliamentary government.
Rather, they would be as angels to gods,
And one could speak of guidance or administration
In connection with their serving duties
Vis-à-vis the saved majority.
Of course, the Leader would be
No-less distinct from the meritocracy
Than (was) the Ruler from the aristocracy,
Since entitled to a separate divine status,
Only one whose derivation
Is subjective rather than objective,
Corresponding to the Holy Spirit
Rather than to the Father,
Since devolving upon the Second Coming,
And hence constituting a Messianic sovereignty
More good, if anything, than 'the Good'.
And yet, it is the People, not the Leader
Or his closest followers,
Who must evolve towards pure spirit;
For the Leader will be complete in himself.
LOVES
Brotherly love is the ideal
Of the
A positive emotionality diffused
Throughout Christian humanity
And thereby rendered impersonal.
Love for another person
In a non-diffused positive emotionality
Is, by contrast, the reality
Of the
An impure love of the sexes,
Possessive and selective,
Attractive and reactive.
Free love, however, is the reality
Of the
And it signifies a 'fall' from
The non-diffused emotional love for another person
Of the neutron-wavicle Church
To the diffused bodily love
Of sexual promiscuity
In a love of other selves which, at the level
Of the electron-
A non-diffused love of phenomenal self.
Spiritual love is, by contrast,
The ideal of the electron-wavicle
Centre,
A love of noumenal self
That yet transcends the individual
In the collective consciousness of pure mind.
If love for another
Is the neutron-wavicle relativity,
Then love of noumenal self
Is the electron-wavicle absolutism,
With the neutron-particle relativity
Of free-loving phenomenalism
And the electron-particle absolutism
Of love of phenomenal self coming in-between.
SUPERFICIAL PARALLEL
It is tempting to see a parallel,
In the Irish and Spanish Civil Wars,
Between Nationalism and Republicanism,
But such a parallel would be, at best,
Superficial, at worst downright misleading!
Whereas the Irish Nationalists
Were also republicans
And the Republicans also nationalists,
The Spanish Republicans weren't nationalists
Nor the Nationalists republicans.
Unlike the Spanish Civil War,
The Irish Civil War didn't signify
A fascist/communist dichotomy but, rather,
Two shades of republican Nationalism -
Soft and hard, gradual and immediate,
Evolutionary and revolutionary.
The split in Sinn Fein over the Treaty
Led to fratricidal strife between
Pro-Treaty Free Staters
And Anti-Treaty Irregulars,
And although the former eventually triumphed,
Leaving
Within the
The proclamation of a republic
Was later engineered by descendants
Of the Free Staters who,
Unlike hard-line republicans,
Were resigned, under Costello, to
A twenty-six county republic.
Imagine, if you can, Franco proclaiming a republic,
And one sees how far apart
The antagonists of the Spanish Civil War
Were from those of the Irish one!
HISTORICAL VALUE
Being neither nationalist nor republican,
I have little sympathy for either side
In the Irish Civil War; though I believe
That, under the prevailing circumstances,
The Free Staters were effectively right,
Since an Irish republic embracing
The whole of
Of a pipe dream now than it was then,
And, besides, the British were implacably opposed
To the 32-county Republican ideal.
To me, both republican Nationalism
And nationalist Republicanism
Are inadequate for solving the
Which demands not a democratic
But a radically theocratic approach,
Commensurate with Social Transcendentalism
And the establishment in Eire
Of an Irish Social Transcendental Centre,
The first of a number of such Centres
That would eventually form a world-wide federation
Of supra-national peoples.
Nationalism, like Republicanism, is limited
To a given span of evolutionary time, corresponding
To an atomic age, and it has to be
admitted that,
Due to historical circumstances, the Irish came late
To both Nationalism and Republicanism -
At the tail-end, so to speak, of the nationalist age.
Consequently, to regard either Nationalism
Or Republicanism as ideals worthy of eternal sanction
Is a serious mistake since, in effect,
They are distinctly temporal.
Better to regard them as means to a higher end -
Namely the attainment of
The most radically theocratic absolutism -
Than to treat them as ends in themselves.
Better not to unduly compromise
With democratic procedure and tradition -
More suited, in any case, to peoples
Like the British and the Americans - than
To take them to heart and/or
Seek to push democracy in a more radical direction.
Better the minimum compromise
That permits one the maximum theocratic freedom,
And thus facilitates progress towards
A truly Irish ideological integrity ...
Albeit one capable of wider global application.
The modicum of political freedom
In which to manoeuvre and subsequently engineer
The higher end - therein, it seems to me, lies
The historical value of the
ULTIMATE CLASS
The upper class are inherently autocratic,
The middle class inherently democratic,
And the lower class inherently bureaucratic.
Evolution proceeds from the first to the last,
Who are only 'lower' in relation to the others,
Since, objectively considered, potentially
If not actually superior to them ...
On account of their environmentally
And socially more-evolved constitutions.
The upper class stem from the Father,
The middle class acknowledge the Son,
While the lower class aspire -
If intermittently and rather indirectly ...
In terms of the Virgin Mary - towards the Holy Spirit.
Now because in the future there should be
Neither autocratic nor democratic classes,
The lower class will be the only class
And, consequently, not lower at all
But an ultimate class, germane to
The theocratic absolutism of a transcendental age.
When the people ultimately triumph over
Both the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie,
The age of theocracy will be upon us.
Thus will humanity attain to its zenith,
Though less in the guise
Of the bureaucratic proletariat than
In that of the theocratic superfolk -
The ultimate manifestation of the People.
SMOKING POLITICS
It is well-known that smoking
Isn't good for the health,
But it may not be generally appreciated
That smoking, no less than politics, is divisible
Into left- and right-wing manifestations,
With the corollary of subnatural,
natural,
Antinatural, and supernatural distinctions,
A corollary presupposing
Roll-ups and cigarettes on the one hand,
But cigars and pipes on the other,
The former left wing, the latter right.
Yes, there is a communist equivalent
To the smoking of a roll-up,
And if this is subnaturalistic,
Then the smoking of a cigarette is naturalistic,
And thus rather more liberal.
By contrast to cigarettes, cigars suggest
A conservative equivalent,
A moderate antinaturalism which is
transcended
In the supernaturalism of a pipe,
That fascist equivalent.
DOPE SMOKING
Fundamentally the smoking of roll-ups
Is an autocratic habit,
Cigarette smoking a bureaucratic habit,
Cigar smoking a democratic habit,
And pipe smoking a theocratic habit.
Smoking 'joints', on the other hand,
Is fundamentally a quasi-theocratic habit,
On account of the anti-supernatural status
Of 'joints' as extended roll-ups with dope,
Whereas the smoking of dope in a pipe
Confers a supernatural status
Commensurate with a pseudo-theocratic habit.
DRINKING AND SMOKING
There is something bourgeois about
A drink/smoke dichotomy, as though
Indulgence of both alcohol and tobacco
confirmed
An antinatural/subnatural
relativity,
Applicable to an atomic age.
Those who are not subnatural
But antinatural ... will only drink.
Those who are not antinatural
But subnatural ... will only smoke.
The first category will drink canned beer,
The second category … roll their own
cigarettes,
With or without dope.
In between will come the beer/tobacco compromise
Of antinatural/subnatural atomists,
A compromise never more democratic
Than when the beer is in pint glasses
And the tobacco in cigars,
Though still existing
On the relatively bureaucratic level
Of bottled beer and cigarettes.
Anyway, if drinking is antinatural
And smoking subnatural,
The one corresponding to a wavicle
equivalent,
The other to a particle equivalent,
Then we need not hesitate
To equate eating with a natural absolutism
And sniffing, by contrast,
With a supernatural absolutism,
The one preceding alcohol
In the atomic-particle age of the Kingdom,
The other destined to succeed tobacco
In the electron-wavicle age of the
Centre,
Eating as confirmation
Of a kind of atomic relativity
Between eater and eaten,
Sniffing as confirmation
Of a kind of electron absolutism
Between sniffer and thing sniffed.
SMOKING AND SNIFFING
If eating to get high
Pertains to the bureaucratic Kingdom,
And drinking to get high
Pertains to the democratic Church,
Then smoking to get high
Pertains to the autocratic State
And sniffing to get high
Pertains to the theocratic Centre.
Eating and drinking
Are natural and antinatural,
Whereas smoking and sniffing
Are subnatural and supernatural.
If eating is barbarous and drinking civilized,
Then smoking is uncivilized
And sniffing supercivilized.
Human evolution proceeds, we needn't doubt,
From the first to the last,
With all due compromises coming in-between,
And should eventually culminate
In a kind of sniffing absolutism,
With eating, drinking, and smoking
Beneath the pale of its future theocratic integrity.
People of the Centrist civilization
Won't eat and/or drink as freely
As people do in a bureaucratic/democratic society,
But will become increasingly partial
To the use of vitamin tablets and/or capsules
...
As appropriate to an age of sniffing,
An alternative rather than supplement
To natural foods and drinks.
Smoking tobacco will be no less irrelevant
Than drinking alcohol,
And if any smoking were to be permitted
During the lower phase of a Centrist age ...
It could only be in the guise
Of dope-smoking through pipes,
As symptomatic of a pseudo-theocratic bias.
DUAL CELEBRATION
Just as Roman Catholicism celebrates Mass
With the body and blood of Christ
Duly transmuted into the wafer and wine,
So Social Transcendentalism should celebrate,
In officially coming to pass,
The dual sides of its spiritual integrity
Through recourse to both 'acid' and 'coke',
Or some harmless derivative thereof,
The one symptomatic of its 'social' (bureaucratic) side,
The other symptomatic
Of its 'transcendental' (theocratic) side -
The former preponderant over the latter ...
As is the wafer over the wine
In the celebration of Mass.
For the wine is transmuted paganism,
The 'Roman' side of Roman Catholicism,
Whereas the wafer is properly Catholic,
Corresponding more universally
To the Mother than to the Father.
It is the wafer rather than the wine
That confers a truly Catholic bias.
Likewise it should be the 'acid'
Rather than the 'coke' (mainly reserved,
in any case, for spiritual leaders ...
as a symbolic intimation
of properly meditative futurity
within a drug-based culture)
That confers a truly social one.
INTIMATION
In the late-twentieth century, the nearest thing
To a meditation centre and, by implication,
The Social Transcendentalist culture
That could be associated with it ...
Was a Rock concert, particularly when indoors
And associated with light shows and synthetic drugs.
Such concerts were especially prevalent during
The late 1960s and early 1970s,
Before Rock succumbed to Punk,
But some Rock still prevailed in the 1990s,
And there was also Jazz to serve the same
purpose -
Essentially one of religious aspiration
And cultural self-realization.
One could argue that these psychedelic concerts
Intimated of future meditation centres,
Much as though they were unofficial manifestations
Of theocratic Centrism in a state age,
The participants effectively outsiders
Within the existing civilization,
Their penchant for synthetic drugs illegal
From a state point-of-view,
Their culture unofficial,
Caught between two ages,
Tail-ending the democratic and intimating
Of the future theocratic,
Somewhat in the position of early Christians
Vis-à-vis the pagan status quo,
Frowned upon by the Establishment,
All those 'straights' who related to democratic,
Not to say autocratic, tradition,
The great middle-class masses of Western civilization,
Who would never 'trip' or 'snort' or do anything -
Sexually, socially, or otherwise - that wasn't
Psychically middle-of-the-road
And hence broadly intellectual.
How they loathed those who were morally better
And more spiritually courageous than themselves,
All those 'freaks' that they preferred,
In their democratic ignorance of higher criteria,
To regard as socially worse and less intelligent -
The evil 'lower class' of an alternative culture,
A counter-culture to which they remained
Both deaf and blind, imprisoned within
The inner darkness of their purgatorial lunacy,
Shut off, like Dante's damned in blocks of ice, from
The liberating spirituality of the inner light!
FREAKS
No-one would pretend that 'freaks'
Were in a majority in the lower class;
For they are conspicuously a tiny minority
Compared with that great mass of philistines
Who constitute the proletarian generality.
Undoubtedly the most culturally precocious members
Of their class, they are the type
From whom a future leadership could be drawn,
A type who are civilized ...
On their own outsider's terms
In advance of the generality
And who, once in power,
Would transmit their culture to the masses
And thus make them more civilized in due turn,
Having first pioneered the way
In an unofficial capacity
Within the church/state civilization
And acquired a knowledge of and allegiance to
The transcendental culture to-come.
But by a curious paradox
Their future role would place them
Outside the mainstream culture of the People.
For you cannot transmit culture
And be civilized at the same time.
What you gain on the unofficial roundabout
You must lose on the official swings.
Civilized in advance of the masses,
You cannot be civilized with them.
DISCS AND TAPES
Whereas long-playing records correspond,
In the outer darkness of their stylus naturalism,
To a centrist political equivalent,
Video tapes correspond, in the outer light
Of their filmic subnaturalism,
To a left-wing political equivalent,
Whilst audio tapes correspond, in the inner darkness
Of their intellectual antinaturalism,
To a right-wing political equivalent.
Hence 'liberal' albums,
'Social democratic' video tapes,
And 'conservative' audio tapes.
But as alternatives to these democratic media
Of sound reproduction are the bureaucratic media
Of outer-darkness singles,
Inner-darkness tape recorders,
And inner-light compact discs,
With left-wing, centrist, and right-wing implications
Corresponding to socialist, ecologist,
And feminist positions that contrast (disc with tape
and tape with disc) to the democratic positions
above,
As though in a particle/wavicle
antagonism
Between hard and soft options,
Singles naturalistically hard
Whereas video tapes are subnaturalistically
soft,
Tape recorders anti-naturalistically soft
Whereas LPs are naturalistically hard,
Compact discs supernaturalistically hard
Whereas audio tapes are anti-naturalistically soft.
CENTRIST EVOLUTION
As appearance gives way to essence
In the overall evolution of human life,
So must Social Transcendentalism eventually
Be superseded by Super-transcendentalism,
In order that the second and higher phase
Of Centrist civilization may come to pass
And bring Centrism to maturity,
Through the purest meditation,
In the ripe wisdom of a beingful essence.
This meditation of the noumenal self
upon itself
Will supersede contemplation of the other in the self,
Pure transcendentalism superseding
The impure transcendentalism of the hallucinogenic trip,
Just as, in the Christian West, puritanical Protestantism
Superseded visionary Catholicism
In the evolution of Christianity
From appearance to essence, doing to being.
Phases cannot be escaped, and if the second phase
Of Centrism must wait until the first phase
Has properly run its course, then so be it!
GIVE AND TAKE
Are you a giving or a taking man, one with
A bias for the Father or for the Holy Spirit,
Or are you both giving and taking
In approximately equal degrees,
Somewhere in between the absolutes
In a Christian relativity?
The sun gives light and trees bear fruit,
But pure spirit would only partake
Of its own blissful being,
As would the supra-beings
Of the preceding post-Human Millennium.
The further man evolves the less he gives
And the more he takes, thereby
Approximating to the goal of evolution
In passive self-containment.
Doing, by contrast, is more connected
With giving than taking,
And the active are usually those who give the most.
If to give is your bias, know that there is
A higher ideal in taking, especially in partaking of the self,
And that the taking man is potentially, if not actually,
A morally superior and more evolved type of being,
Not the good-for-nothing rogue he may at first appear!
Eventually, there will be no giving but only taking
Or, rather, partaking of pure mind.
TELEVISION AND VIDEO
As discs to tapes, so television to video,
The one autocratic and the other democratic,
Extreme and moderate left-wing alternatives,
With the former corresponding
To a communist equivalent, and the latter ...
To a social democratic one,
Television the outer-light subnaturalism,
Relative to autocracy, of the communist State;
Video the outer-light subnaturalism,
Relative to democracy, of the social democratic State.
SEASONS
Spring and autumn are Christian seasons,
The one corresponding to the instinctual side of Christ,
The other to His spiritual side,
Spring a kind of diluted summer,
Autumn ... a diluted winter,
Semi-pagan and semi-transcendental respectively.
Summer and winter, however, are the pagan
And transcendental seasons, corresponding
To the Father and to the Holy Ghost.
Summer draws one closer to Hell,
The burning heat of the sun scorching the flesh
And stultifying the mind.
Winter, by contrast, draws one closer to Heaven,
The sun at too great a distance to be of any real menace,
The icy air freezing the flesh and quickening the mind.
Which is better - to burn or to freeze?
The flesh prefers the former,
And most people regret the passing of summer,
Their bodies attuned to its heathen warmth
And their senses gratified by nature's pagan show,
The season a holiday from transcendental morals
And puritanical obligations.
Winter, then, is a negative thing,
The bitter inclemencies unmoved by human
woe,
Indifferent to human want.
Rare is the man who is grateful for
winter,
Who sees in the gentler sun
A reprieve from pagan tyranny,
Whose mind dominates the flesh
And can regard its revolt
With icy contempt or indifference,
Preferring the season of the mind.
Such a man is not Christian, still less pagan,
But transcendental, transvaluated within
himself
And living not in the mind for the body,
But in the body for the mind.
If, at present, this man is the exception,
In the future he will become the rule -
Unafraid of winter, contemptuous of the sun!
THEOCRACY FULL-BLOWN
Supertheocracy is no mere Christian theocracy,
As applying to the spiritual side of Christ,
But the full-blown transcendental theocracy
Of the Second Coming, the theocracy
Not of the Church but of the Centre.
Supertheocracy appertains to the Supermen,
Those hypertripping Supernaturalists
In the Social Transcendentalist phase
Of the Centrist civilization to come.
Supra-theocracy appertains to the Supra-men,
Those hypermeditating Supra-naturalists
In the purely transcendental phase
Of the Centrist civilization, antithetically
Equivalent to the puritanical phase
Of the Christian civilization.
For whereas Puritanism signified
A neutron-wavicle equivalent,
Pure transcendentalism will signify
An electron-wavicle equivalent,
Eventually leading to the first
Of two ultimate life forms - namely
The Superbeings of the post-Human
Millennium.
Supertheocracy in the Centrist civilization
Has its parallel in the succeeding millennium,
And so, likewise, does Supra-theocracy.
The cultivation of pure spirit proceeds
From an indirect to a direct approach,
As from appearance to essence.
Supertheocracy will be contemplative,
Albeit on the most artificial terms.
Supra-theocracy will be meditative on the purest terms,
The wavicle absolutism of the mind
aware.
Awareness and ever greater awareness - that is
The air-stimulated challenge of evolution!
LITERARY PROGRESS
Playwright, novelist, philosopher, poet -
The secular playwright more prevalent
In the alpha of civilized evolution
Than in the age of Christianity,
When the Catholic playwright came into his own
And, superseding the Roman Catholic scholastics,
With their attenuated philosophy and medieval theosophy,
Brought atomic writing to its wavicle
climax,
Before the Protestant playwright attenuated the genre
Through secularization, permitting emergence
Of the liberal novel, with its dualistic integrity,
A dramatic/philosophic compromise
Soon to be challenged, and transcended, by
The philosophical absolutism
Of the socialist novel, or antinovel,
Preparatory to the eclipse of the novel
By practical philosophy,
Beyond which only the anti-supernovel
Of a poetic bias can apply, before,
Last but scarcely least, the pure poet emerges
With the omega of civilized evolution,
To bring electron writing to its wavicle
climax
In the purest poetry of a theocratic impression,
An intimation of the Holy Spirit
In the contemplative peace that surpasses all intellectuality.
CENTRIST FREEDOM
Socialism, whether democratic or totalitarian,
May constitute an antithetical equivalent to
The aristocratic enslavement of feudal autocracy,
Being the electron-particle counterpart
To proton-particle materialism,
But it isn't the end, in economic terms, of
The evolutionary road.
For no less than an atomic-wavicle
equivalent
Is entitled to its economic freedom,
So an electron-wavicle equivalent
Is entitled to its economic
freedom
In meritocratic Centrism,
Which pertains to the Second Coming
And to the Centrist ideology
Of Social Transcendentalism,
In what could be described as Centre guidance,
Whereby the meritocracy decide how money
Is to be spent and/or raised
In the interests of supertheocratic
freedom.
ECONOMIC DISTINCTIONS
The main economic distinction is between
Particle enslavement and wavicle
freedom,
Or aristocratic feudalism
And bureaucratic socialism on the one hand,
But plutocratic capitalism
And meritocratic centrism on the other
hand,
The bureaucratic leading to the meritocratic
No less than the aristocratic led to the plutocratic,
Albeit not, in each case, without a struggle,
Nor, indeed, without intermediate compromises.
If a proton-particle equivalent
Is aristocratic in relation to
An atomic-wavicle equivalent, its
plutocratic successor,
Then an electron-particle equivalent
Will be bureaucratic in relation to
An electron-wavicle equivalent, its meritocratic successor.
Only the wavicle equivalent, whether
moderate or extreme,
Plutocratic or meritocratic, represents
economic freedom.
But only an extreme wavicle equivalent
Can represent the highest freedom ...
Of a meritocratic Centrism.
ULTIMATE CENTRIST FREEDOM
Social Transcendentalism is intended to signify
A compromise between bureaucracy and meritocracy,
State planning and Centre guidance,
With an emphasis on the latter ...
In accordance with the wavicle bias
Of this supertheocratic ideology,
Which necessarily transcends socialism in
The name of Centrist freedom,
In order that the way may be prepared
For the ultimate Centrist freedom
Of the absolutely wavicle age to follow
-
The supra-theocratic age of pure Centrism.
PROTONS AND ELECTRONS
Protons are self-assertive,
Electrons self-transcending.
Protons are autocratic, electrons theocratic.
Protons are centrifugal, electrons centripetal.
Protons are subnatural, electrons
supernatural.
Protons are the Kingdom, electrons the Centre.
Protons are fundamentally particles,
Electrons essentially wavicles.
Protons precede electrons,
Then protons and electrons coexist,
With the help of neutrons,
In an atomic compromise,
After which electrons supersede protons.
Electron particles are less materialistic
Than proton particles.
Electron wavicles are more
spiritualistic
Than proton wavicles.
Proton materialism is natural
But electron materialism is antinatural.
Proton spirituality is subnatural
But electron spirituality is supernatural.
Proton spirituality is pseudo because apparent,
Electron materialism is pseudo because synthetic.
The genuine is at the beginning of materialism
And at the end of spirituality,
Alpha of the world and omega of the spirit.
OVERCOMING MAN
Man's Final End isn't in God ...
As unified pure spirit set in space,
But in the Superbeings of millennial
futurity,
That post-human epoch in time
Which more accords with Eternity.
Man's Final Overcoming is in the first
Of our two projected post-human life forms -
The artificially-supported and sustained
Brain collectivizations of the Superbeings,
Who will be as much above transcendental man
As tree-living apes were beneath pagan man,
Being a completely separate species of life,
Not beastly but divine, not animals but gods,
Knowing little of and caring nothing for
The world of man, that passing show
In between pre- and post-human life forms,
Never more strictly itself than
In a Christian, humanist stage
Of its painful evolution, when man
Was the relative measure of all things relatively.
Even the Supermen in the first stage
Of ultimate human civilization,
The Centrist civilization of a transcendental age,
Will attest to man's overcoming
To the relative degree of post-humanist affiliation,
An affiliation that will become
More radically post-humanist with the second stage
Of Centrist evolution in hypermeditating
Supra-men,
A pre-millennial stage that will lead
To the Millennium-proper, and so
To man's ultimate overcoming
In hypertripping Superbeings,
who in turn
Will be overcome and superseded
By hypermeditating Supra-beings
In the second stage of the post-Human Millennium,
The pre-heavenly stage leading directly
To the Beyond of spaced-up pure spirit.
ALLEGIANCES
It makes a lot of difference whether
You are for the Father, the Son, or the Holy Ghost.
Some people, even now, are for the Father,
And are thus effectively neo-pagan.
Some people are still for the Son, being
Of that diehard core of genuine Christians.
Some people are neither for the Father
Nor for the Son but ... the Antichrist,
And are thus effectively communistic, favouring
The abandonment of all religious traditions.
Other people, who vary in numbers
From country to country, are for the Second Coming,
Being of the opinion that only he can lead the way
For the rebirth of religion
In an aspiration towards the Holy Ghost.
Some people, even now, are for the Holy Ghost,
And are thus effectively
proto-transcendentalist,
Consciously dedicated to tripping
And/or meditating in hope
Of an approximation to pure mind.
These alone aspire towards the truly divine,
And, in time, they will be joined by many more!
CHURCH AND STATE
A liberal democracy, such as exists in
Is effectively a compromise between church and state,
The Conservatives aligned with the
Left-wing parties aligned with the socialist State,
A kind of political tug-of-war ensuing
Between the two which, however, is never resolved,
There being no will on the Left for a state absolutism,
All parties implicated in the atomic relativity
Of a liberal democracy.
The Labour Party may be anti-democratic in essence,
But only within the relative context of liberalism,
Not on any absolute basis.
Conversely, the Liberal Democrats, while being
In essence democratic, are more radically so
Than their Liberal forerunners.
Being democratic does of course imply
One's favouring a mixed, and hence relative, economy,
Whether in terms of a balance between
The private and public sectors, as in Liberalism,
Or in terms of an oscillation between the private
And public sectors, as in Liberal Democracy,
Whereas the 'anti-democratic' Labour Party
Have traditionally favoured the public sector alone,
And thus endeavoured to nationalize
As much as possible whilst in office,
In contrast to the privatizing Tories,
With whom they were in bitter conflict.
If capitalism and Protestantism slot together,
Then so do socialism and communism,
But the democratic socialists aren't nearly
As communist as left-wing Marxists, who are
Outside the pale of the liberal compromise -
Upholders of a state absolutism.
CHURCH ABSOLUTISM
The Extreme Right have no more in common
With the Conservatives than
The Extreme Left ... with the Liberals.
Both fascism and communism are outside the pale
Of a church/state compromise,
The one tending to signify a church absolutism,
The other ... a state absolutism,
Albeit, in both cases, very different churches
And states from those pertaining to liberal civilization.
If fascism falls short of conceiving
The religious successor to the Church ... in the Centre,
It at least undermines the State
And intimates, in its paradoxical way, of
A higher possibility.
Hitler's Reich wasn't so much a state (which
in any case is implicated in republicanism) as a
Crude and bogus Centre,
One opposed to all republicanism
And, by implication, democratic sovereignty.
A 'Centre' without the truth, fascism
An extreme right-wing antithesis to communism
Which, in its Marxist purism, is without
The Leninist 'State' or, more correctly,
As formerly applying to Soviet Communism.
No less than Bolshevism was beyond Marxism ...
Social Transcendentalism is beyond fascism,
Being the ideology of the Second Coming,
The logical successor to Christianity.
And no less than Soviet Communism weakened
The totalitarian State, or Bolshevik pseudo-Kingdom,
Through the infusion of pseudo-democracy,
So Social Transcendentalism would
Strengthen the Centre, until, ultimately,
Nothing but the Centre remained,
Transcendentalism having eclipsed
Even the 'social' side, or transmuted state-aspect,
Of Social Transcendentalism.
SPORT
If medieval Christians could be raised
From the dead and then confronted
By the amount of sporting activity which
The contemporary world takes for granted,
They would probably be horrified
And quickly elect to return to their graves again!
For such Christians would surely think
They had been returned, in time, to
An age of pagan physicality,
When bodily strength counted for everything
And the spirit, by contrast, for next-to-nothing!
For what is this recrudescence
Of physical competition to which
The modern world is especially partial
If not a kind of neo-pagan materialism,
Symptomatic of an intensive decadence
Peculiar to the age of the State?
Anyone who knew anything about the atom
Could be left in no doubt
That neutron and electron particles
Had conclusively triumphed over neutron wavicles
In the establishment of an anti-natural athleticism,
The antithetical equivalent to proton subnaturalism.
Yes, artificial physicality has triumphed,
Whether on the racing track or on the football field,
The golf course or the cricket pitch,
The
The gym floor or the ice-skating rink,
In the swimming pool or in the boxing ring.
While some sport is still predominantly subnatural,
And thus literally neo-pagan, most of it
Is artificial, and thus strictly contemporary.
But it is all somehow symptomatic of state decadence,
And sometimes it is no less fatalistic
Than in the gladiatorial age of the barbaric ancients.
Mostly, however, it is relatively harmless
From the physical point-of-view, since
Electron equivalents are more disposed
To attraction than to reaction, and they
Tend to preponderate over anachronisms.
But, still, it all leaves something
To be desired from a spiritual point-of-view,
And you can take it from me
That if the state-oriented present is ever overcome,
And a new civilization duly developed,
There will be far less sporting activity around
In the future, such little as remains
Being largely, if not exclusively, sedentary and artificial,
Requiring no more than one player,
And he mainly a spectator.
OMEGA MILLENNIUM
The Millennium for me is a period in time
Beyond man and before ... Heaven,
A post-human period that succeeds
The last stage of human civilization
In the free-electron absolutism of Centrism,
As applying to the Supermen and Supra-men
Of the coming transcendental age.
Since these are earmarked to succeed
The Catholic and Protestant men
Of the Christian age, so will they be superseded
By the Superbeings and Supra-beings
Of the post-Human Millennium,
Who will in turn be superseded
By the Spiritual Globes
Of the post-Millennial Beyond.
Prior to Christian men, we find the submen
In the pagan age of proton absolutism,
And they signified a 'fall' from the moral innocence
Of tree-living apes in 'the Garden'
Of the pre-human period in time,
Which we can classify as the Alpha Millennium,
A truly subnatural absolutism
Of apes in branches and, prior to that,
Leaves on trees, which were preceded
By the Instinctual Globes of stars,
Whether large, medium, or small,
Unregenerate or cooling.
So just as transcendental men will be
Antithetical to the men of pagan antiquity,
So the Superbeings of the Omega
Millennium
Will be antithetical to the apes, or submen,
Of the Alpha Millennium, and the Supra-beings thereof
Likewise antithetical to its trees or, rather, leaves,
Which we can classify as sub-beings,
If only to distinguish them from apes.
However, it is towards the Omega Millennium
Instead of back towards the Alpha Millennium
That man is slowly advancing,
And when he eventually gets there
His final overcoming will be for real,
With only a comparatively small number
Of men remaining to engineer the creation
And supervise the physical and spiritual wellbeing,
Of his god-like successors.
BEHIND AND BEYOND
Stages in the Behind leading
From the first-cause central star
Of any particular galaxy to sun-type
Peripheral stars, and from there to planets,
As from the Alpha Absolute ...
Of a universal instinctual globe
To galactic and planetary instinctual globes -
Creators, devils, and demons,
In decreasing sizes proportionately.
Contrast this to stages
In our projected Beyond, leading
From planetary and galactic spiritual globes
To the universal spiritual globe ...
Of the Omega Absolute -
As from the Many and Few to the One,
With increases in size proportionately,
As convergence and expansion take
Their divinely-ordained course in the depths of space,
From planetary spiritual globes,
Each one arising from a Supra-being
In the second stage of millennial evolution,
To the larger galactic spiritual globes,
Antithetical to suns, until culmination
Is achieved in the universal spiritual globe ...
Of the Omega Absolute,
As the end-product of all previous
Convergences and expansions,
The complete antithesis to the Alpha Absolute
At the centre of each galaxy,
The Creator-equivalent with
Its wavicle proton-proton reactions, not
one but ...
Thousands of them all over the Universe,
The source from which smaller stars 'fell',
To diverge and contract
In diabolic apartness of particle friction,
The infernal Behind of cosmic devolution,
Competition cosmos-without-end.
Astronomy and astrology are
Of this diabolic cosmos, the one physical
Or, rather, subphysical, and the other
occult,
Concerned with interpreting
The instinctual effects upon the human psyche
Of stars and planets, reflecting
Enslavement to subnatural determinism.
Higher man, closer to the Beyond than
To the Behind, scorns these diabolic disciplines,
Won't have anything to do with them.
He knows that the future won't have
Anything to do with them either,
Preferring its closed-society absolutism
Of an aspiration towards the Beyond,
Dedicated, through Centrism, to the cultivation
Of pure spirit in free-electron attractions
Of mind to mind, a microcosmic approximation
To subsequent macrocosmic unification.
MARRIAGE
Marriage is a liberal bond
Between church and kingdom,
The Virgin and the Father transmuted,
Through Christian realism.
Woman as atomic-wavicle equivalent
And man as atomic-particle equivalent
During the act of procreation.
Soft and hard, hard into soft growing softer
Until climax eclipses both
In the most ecstatic sensation of physical soul!
Fear of descent into state promiscuity
At the heart of natural conservatism,
Its roots somewhere down in allegiance to nature.
No divorce if that encourages a split
Between church and state, and ...
Fans the flames of a state absolutism,
Antinaturalism growing to the point
Of exclusion of woman from sex,
A particle materialism of homosexual males.
All very bad from the standpoint
Of the Catholic Church, sexual decadence
A confirmation of moral decline.
So what's to be done?
Stay atomic for ever, keeping people married
In a liberal compromise?
No, evolution demands its way,
Else life will perish in deathly stasis!
For wavicle-biased peoples,
The answer is a new and higher wavicle
bias,
A supernatural sexuality that
Transcends marriage, being above atomic dualism
In the free-electron absolutism
Of artificial individual sex, as germane
To a Social Transcendentalist ideological integrity,
Each person, whether male or female,
Independent of the opposite sex,
Since not recognizing a sexual dichotomy,
A plastic inflatable or vibrator
The physical concomitant
Of the 'social' side of the ideology,
A refined pornographic extremism, appertaining
To computers, the spiritual concomitant
Of the 'transcendental' side
Of this relativistic absolutism,
The supernatural successors to both
Coital and oral sex - the pornographic
More supra-natural than supernatural. And babies?
Conceived, as before, by women, except that
The seed comes from sperm banks
And is artificially inseminated into
The prospective mother,
Thereby transcending the need for sexual materialism,
That church/state compromise, in