26. For
me, the terms 'old brain' and 'new brain' have long signified an alpha/omega
dichotomy in each case between alpha/omega-in-the-alpha on the one hand, and
alpha-in-the-omega/omega on the other hand, and therefore I have no hesitation
in dovetailing such terms as backbrain/forebrain and
left brain/right brain into these long-standing terms in such a way as to
correspond to the above subdivision.
Hence alpha backbrain and omega-in-the-alpha
left brain in relation to the old brain, and alpha-in-the-omega right brain and
omega forebrain in relation to the new brain.
Full-star dream immorality and half-cross intellectual morality are the
alpha/omega poles of the old brain, whereas half-star filmic immorality and
full-cross meditative morality are the alpha/omega poles of the new brain, with
naturalistic and artificial distinctions between each brain. Hence superstar alpha vis-à-vis cross omega-in-the-alpha for the backbrain/left-brain
polarity of the old brain, in contrast to star alpha-in-the-omega vis-à-vis supercross omega for the right-brain/forebrain polarity of
the new brain.
27. Returning
to the trad jazz/modern jazz distinction which I was
thinking about several entries (and indeed days) ago, it seems to me that, on
deeper and subsequent reflection, modern jazz is less Communist than
Transcendentalist, to the extent that we are concerned with jazz on an
artificial (and hence electric) as opposed to a naturalistic (and hence
acoustic) basis, and therefore it parallels trad jazz
on new-brain omega terms, terms which emphasize joy and truth as opposed, for
instance, to pride and strength. Hence
if trad jazz and modern jazz exist on parallel omega
terms, it seems that the new-brain alpha position would have to be reserved for
soul music, so that soul and jazz are perceived to be antithetical not, as I
had formerly supposed, on a sort of jazz/soul basis, corresponding to alpha and
omega, but on a soul/jazz basis, with a soul/spirit dichotomy as between fire
and light or, more literally, emotion and awareness, the Father and the Holy
Spirit. Thus, in contrast to our
previous estimation, soul and jazz would constitute the alpha and omega of
new-brain music, with rock and pop constituting lunar and worldly
(mundane/terrestrial) poles as before (see diagram 1).
1.
SOUL/ROCK/JAZZ
(alpha/solar)(lunar)(omega/stellar)
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POP
(worldly)
However, if these four contemporary types
of music are of a wavicle bias, and hence essentially
religious on their respective alpha/omega and lunar/worldly terms, then it seems
to me that the four particle-biased, and hence secular, types of contemporary
music which parallel them will be rap in the case of soul, punk in the case of
rock, funk in the case of pop, and blues in the case of jazz (see diagram 2):-
2.
RAP/PUNK/BLUES
(anti-alpha)(anti-lunar)(anti-omega)
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FUNK
(anti-worldy)
and that these alternative types of
contemporary music, no less relative to the new brain, will be 'anti'-music in
relation to the wavicle-biased types of music above
them, as it were, in the religious contexts corresponding to the Father - the
Son - the Holy Ghost - and to the Blessed Virgin, the Father and the Holy Ghost
no less antithetical on an alpha/omega basis than the Son and the Blessed
Virgin on a lunar/mundane one. Thus if
soul corresponds to the Father (Creator), then rap, by contrast, corresponds to
the Devil (Satan). If jazz corresponds
to the Holy Spirit, then blues corresponds to the Antispirit. If rock corresponds to Christ, then punk
corresponds to the Antichrist. And if
pop corresponds to the Blessed Virgin, then funk corresponds to the Antivirgin. Or, put
another way, if soul corresponds to pride and strength, then rap corresponds to
humiliation and weakness. If jazz
corresponds to joy and truth, then blues corresponds to woe and illusion. If rock corresponds to love and goodness,
then punk corresponds to hate and evil.
And if pop corresponds to pleasure and beauty, then funk corresponds to
pain and ugliness. Thus whereas rock is
Protestant and pop Catholic, punk is Republican and funk Liberal. And whereas soul is Marxist and jazz
Transcendentalist, rap is Communist and blues Fascist or, at any rate, Social
Transcendentalist (bearing in mind the old-brain/new-brain distinction between
acoustic and electric blues). Thus punk
is to funk what rock is to pop - the lunar/worldly poles of a
materialistic/realistic axis. Likewise,
soul is to jazz what rap is to blues - the alpha/omega poles of a
naturalistic/idealistic axis. Speaking
in elemental terms, one could contend that whereas soul is wavicle
fire and jazz wavicle light, rap is particle fire and
blues particle light. Similarly, one
could contend that whereas rock is wavicle water and
pop wavicle earth, punk is particle water and funk
particle earth. Again this would
correspond to religious and secular, or divine and diabolic, distinctions. Of course, I didn't get to this position
all-in-one-go, and the reader may recall that formerly I regarded folk and pop
as constituting a wavicle/particle dichotomy with
regard to the worldly religious and secular positions. Yet, on deeper reflection, it does seem to me
that funk is the most likely and credible candidate for a particle-worldly
(liberal) status, bearing in mind its highly rhythmic essence. It also seems to me that the fact of folk's
acoustic constitution precludes one from equating it with a new-brain standing
or position, insofar as that brain correlates with the artificial (and hence
electric) rather than with the naturalistic (and hence acoustic), thereby
confining one's choice to electric music, which, of course, both pop and funk
usually are. As good a definition of pop
as any would be dance music or, at any rate, electric music one can dance to,
and if this applies on a wavicle basis to pop, then
it must surely apply on a particle basis to funk, which is more intensely and
even unambiguously rhythmic. Funk is no
less a fall from pop than ... punk a fall from rock, wherein the terms of our wavicle/particle dichotomy are less wilful than intellectual,
given the cerebral as opposed to bodily parallel of the lunar, or purgatorial,
option, corresponding to Protestantism and Republicanism respectively, and thus
to Christ and Antichrist. If both pop
and funk are the music of 'bodies', or worldly types, then rock and punk, by
contrast, are the music of 'heads', albeit on intellectual/anti-intellectual
rather than either soulful/anti-soulful or spiritual/anti-spiritual terms, and
the 'head', conceived in regard to the cranial, corresponds to the moon, which
hangs over the earth like Christ over the Blessed Virgin, or, for that matter,
Britain over Ireland. However that may
be, soul and rap are of the alpha, on divine and diabolic terms, and are thus
more the music of the subconscious psyche in its wavicle
and particle subatomic manifestations than of the brain as such, just as jazz
and blues, corresponding to the omega on both divine and diabolic terms, are
musical forms of the superconscious psyche in its wavicle and particle supra-atomic manifestations, and are
thus as much beyond the brain (intellect) as soul and rap would seem to be
before or behind it. If soul/rap is the
music of the emotional Damned (no matter how seemingly positive that emotion
may be), then jazz/blues is the music of the spiritually Saved, who are never
more saved than when woe and illusion give way to joy and truth, and the Holy
Spirit accordingly prevails, through jazz, over the Antispirit. Whereas alpha is outer and selfless, omega is
inner and selfish; whereas alpha is centrifugal and apparent, omega is
centripetal and essential. Soul may be
proud and strong, but it is still alpha-like in relation to jazz, which is the
music that inspires joy and confirms truth.
If rap is weakness and humiliation, that is because it tends to be
politically aggressive, like Communism, and thus a particle fall, paralleling
the sun vis-à-vis the central star of the Galaxy, from wavicle
(soulful) grace. Rap is musical hell,
and all musical hell is let loose wherever rap prevails. Blues, too, is musical hell, but it is an
inner hell of woe and illusion, and thus morally preferable to, and superior
than, the outer hell which burns, in Satanic humiliation and weakness, against
the light. Blues can lead to jazz,
whereas rap is doomed to burn in fallen isolation from soul, as Satan from the
Father, and to rage, in particle declamation, until it burns itself up and can
rage no more. In this respect, it
resembles comic opera, which stands to grand opera as proton particles to wavicles, the sun to the central star of the Galaxy, albeit
within the context of the old brain as opposed to the new one. For, of course, the acoustic and, hence,
naturalistic forms of music are no less intelligible in terms of our basic
fourfold wavicle/particle divisions, with, so I
contend, opera as the old-brain equivalent of soul and concerto music as the
old-brain equivalent of jazz, symphonies and ballet coming in-between on a
basis paralleling rock and pop (see diagram 3):-
3.
OPERA/SYMPHONIES/CONCERTOS
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BALLET
so that soul, intellect, spirit, and will
are all granted musical representation, as in the new brain, and can be known
accordingly. As, of course, can their
'anti', or secular, manifestations which, if I am not mistaken, will take the
forms of comic opera, symphonic poems, concerto grosso,
and light dance music (see diagram 4)
4.
COMIC
OPERA/SYMPHONIC POEMS/CONCERTO GROSSO
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LIGHT
DANCE
(Ballroom dancing)
in the more naturalistic criteria of
old-brain culture, which is rather more bourgeois than proletarian, though
subject to similar divisions, both politically and religiously. Yet if soul is more intense in the old brain
than in the new one on account of that brain's closer extrapolation from cosmic
parallels, spirit is less intense there than in the new brain, and accordingly wavicle grand opera corresponds to alpha and soul to
alpha-in-the-omega, concerto music corresponds to omega-in-the-alpha and jazz
to omega. One might say that although
the backbrain figures in both opera and soul, the backbrain of the opera singer is more connected to a
naturalistic environment, whereas the backbrain of
the soul singer is rather more habituated to an urban environment, and is
accordingly proletarian rather than bourgeois.
Conversely, the forebrain of the concerto performer is less spiritually
advanced than the forebrain of the jazz musician because he is accustomed to a
provincial or even rural rather than to an urban milieu, and has a less-well
developed forebrain in consequence. His
morality is relative, whereas the jazz musician's morality is capable of
opening towards the absolute. As to the
left brain of the symphonic composer and the rock musician respectively,
similar environmental distinctions can be drawn, though whereas the former corresponds
to purgatory-in-the-world, the latter corresponds to purgatory per se, being so much more
materialistic and intellectually extreme in consequence of his urban
background. Likewise, whereas the right
brain figures prominently in both ballet and pop, it figures more prominently
in ballet than in pop on account of the environmental distinctions between
proletarian and bourgeois culture, which makes ballet correspond to the world
but pop to the-world-in-purgatory on account of its less wilful constitution. More intellect in the urban left brain than
in the provincial left brain, though less will in the urban right brain than in
the provincial right brain, given the urban correspondence to purgatory (the
moon) and the provincial/rural correspondence to the world (the earth). Hence more will in the provincial old brain
than in the urban new brain, but less intellect in the provincial old brain
than in the urban new brain. Hence, too,
more soul in the provincial old brain than in the urban new brain, but less
spirit in the provincial old brain than in the urban new brain. For whereas soul and will
are devolutionary, corresponding to the star, intellect and spirit are
evolutionary, and thereby correspond to the cross. Now what applies to each of the wavicle types of music, in relation to our more basic
fourfold divisions of the human brain, applies no less to the particle types of
music which form a secular counterpart to their religious essence.
28. It
would seem that my concept of an old-brain/new-brain dichotomy is less a matter
of cerebral division into two brains than an acknowledgement of the effects of
different environments on the fourfold division of the overall brain, viz. backbrain/forebrain along a horizontal axis, and left
brain/right brain along a vertical one.
Hence while the backbrain, for example, will
be effected in a naturalistic way by a rural environment and thus pertain to
the old brain, it will be effected in an artificial way by an urban environment
and thus pertain to the new brain. For
this naturalistic/artificial division, conditioned in large part by
environment, is at the root of the distinction I have drawn between the old
brain (with its fourfold cerebral divisions) and the
new brain (also with fourfold cerebral divisions). Furthermore, it seems to me that I have
opted, hitherto, for a sort of bourgeois/proletarian dichotomy between the old
brain and the new brain, and thus settled for fourfold divisions
along roughly naturalistic and artificial lines on the basis of such a class
distinction. However, while this is
expedient in terms of the contemporary world and its capitalist/socialist
dichotomy, it is less than objectively correct.
For, in reality, the bourgeois category is less naturalistic than a sort
of cross, or compromise, between naturalistic and artificial antitheses, a
compromise corresponding, in environmental terms, to a provincial and/or
suburban milieu as opposed to either a rural or an urban one, and stands
approximately in between the purely naturalistic and artificial antitheses of,
on the one hand, a feudal peasant society and, on the other hand, a socialistic
proletarian society, much the way that the ego stands in between the
subconscious and the superconscious, or democracy in
between autocracy and theocracy. Hence
the real naturalistic category, corresponding to the old brain, is a feudal
peasant one, and it is in this rural context that naturalism has its true
voice, one musically expressed in terms, for example, of folk music, gigs,
reels, and other traditional modes of acoustic music which may be said to have
preceded the bourgeois contexts of classical music, and which stand in an
antithetical relationship to the contemporary forms of electric music, as
discussed above. I do not feel qualified
to speculate on the individual standings of traditional music in relation to
our fourfold division of the brain and its T-like diagrams, for I am
effectively a creature of the city rather than of the country, and have little
experience of such traditional acoustic music.
But it is clear that it pertains to the old brain as a purely
naturalistic phenomenon relative to a peasant society, wherein we are dealing
with a rural as opposed to a suburban or an urban influence, and that it is
accordingly autocratic rather than democratic, like bourgeois music, or
theocratic, like proletarian music, with a corresponding correlation with the
first part of the Trinity - the autocratic part par excellence. Its backbrain
musical equivalent would be much more soulful than both the bourgeois and
proletarian forms of backbrain music, viz. opera and
soul, and accordingly be the most naturalistic mode of alpha music, whereas its
forebrain musical equivalent, by contrast, would be much less spiritual than
both the bourgeois and proletarian forms of forebrain music, viz. concertos and
jazz, and accordingly be the least idealistic mode of omega music. Conversely, its right-brain musical
equivalent would be much more wilful, or will-based, than both the bourgeois
and proletarian forms of right-brain music, viz. ballet and pop, and
accordingly be the most realistic mode of worldly music, whereas its left-brain
musical equivalent would be much less intellectual than both the bourgeois and
proletarian forms of left-brain music, viz. symphonies and rock, and
accordingly be the least materialistic mode of purgatorial music. Obviously, the alpha and worldly contexts of
this peasant music will involve singing and dancing respectively, whereas the
purgatorial and omega contexts will involve instrumentals of an intellectual
and a spiritual order respectively, with collective and individual
distinctions. Now what applies to the wavicle modes of this naturalistic music will also apply to
its particle modes, where we are conscious of different kinds of antimusic which signify a fall, in moral terms, from the
religious plane to that of the secular, or political, one - a fall which both
necessitates and implies a cruder approach to any given mode of traditional
acoustic music.
29. Barbarism
is always collectivistic, civilization individualistic. A man is innocent until proven guilty in a
civilized society, but guilty until proven innocent in a barbarous one, the
reason being that moral innocence, or rectitude, and individualism are
commensurate, as, on barbarous terms, are moral guilt and collectivism. A collectivistic society is alpha, an
individualistic society omega, the difference between the star and the
cross. For the one is
external whereas the other is internal, the one autocratic and the other
theocratic. In between comes the
democratic compromise between collectivism, embodied in the People as
electorate, and the individual, embodied in the People's representative, who is
elected to govern on behalf of the People and thus, by implication, to maintain
an individualistic bias commensurate with civilization. Too much democracy in the People and we would
not have civilization but barbarism, the collective chaos of a People's
democracy (conceiving of that term on a purely collectivistic basis). The great artist/philosopher is profoundly
moral because he has the duty to uphold private individualism in the face of
public collectivism, and thus keep the torch of civilization shining as a
beacon and guide to the less-enlightened masses. The ultimate artist/philosopher is the Second
Coming, who leads from above on the basis of his divine individualism and the
truth it signifies.
30. The British flag, the so-called Union Jack, can be perceived
as predominantly either a cross or a star, depending how it is hung. Hung vertically, and
one has a predominating cross. Hung horizontally, and one has a predominating star. The British, being relative, can thus show
either a bourgeois or a proletarian face to their flag, depending, in large
measure, upon the nature of the context in which it is being displayed. Co-operative and moral (relatively) and one
is likely to see the Union Jack hanging vertically. Competitive and immoral (relatively) and one
will see it hanging horizontally. In the
former context, the Union Jack is bourgeois and capitalistic; in the latter
context, by contrast, it will be proletarian and socialistic. Private and public
alternatives, as reflecting the relative (atomic) nature of British
civilization. Previously, I had
seen the Union Jack as either a star or a cross. Now I am able to synthesize my view according
to the context, which is indicative, after all, of how the struggle for truth,
objectivity, and perspective progresses - by degrees!
31. If
one were to generalize in terms of the most characteristic contemporary form of
music for each of the four countries which make up the British Isles, I think
the result would be: Welsh soul, English rock, Scotch jazz, and Irish pop, as
follows:-
WELSH
SOUL/ENGLISH ROCK/SCOTCH JAZZ
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POP
with, broadly, alpha-purgatorial-omega-and
worldly distinctions, as regards the Trinity above and the Blessed Virgin
below. Likewise, it should also be
possible to generalize on an identical basis where the fallen, or secular,
types of contemporary music are concerned, so that one could speak, for
instance, of Welsh rap, English punk, Scotch blues, and Irish funk, with
negative, or particle-biased, implications respectively. However that may be, it would seem that, by
and large, the Welsh are naturalistic, and hence fiery; the English
materialistic, and hence watery; the Scotch idealistic, and hence airy; and the
Irish realistic, and hence earthy. Welsh
fire, English water, Scotch air, and Irish earth, corresponding to heat,
coldness, light, and darkness, or soul, intellect, spirit, and will
respectively, as applicable, so I would argue, to each of the above-mentioned
musical forms and, within negative terms, to their secular, or fallen,
counterparts. The red
of
32. If
one were to accord each of the four major arts, viz. sculpture, literature,
music, and painting a specific ideal, both quantitatively and qualitatively, my
choice of ideals would be as follows: strength and pride for sculpture;
goodness and love for music; truth and joy for literature; and beauty and
pleasure for painting. Thus each of the
four major branches of the arts could be ascribed a generalized position within
the T-like framework of Truth, viz:-
SCULPTURE/MUSIC/LITERATURE
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PAINTING
which would suggest that sculpture is the
naturalistic art par
excellence, painting the realistic art par excellence, music the materialistic
art par excellence, and literature the idealistic art par excellence,
with alpha, worldly, purgatorial, and omega correspondences respectively -
sculpture and literature, or strength (pride) and truth (joy) no less
antithetical than ... painting and music, or beauty (pleasure) and goodness
(love). Thus it could be said that, in
their positive manifestations (wavicle), sculpture is
of the Father, painting of the Blessed Virgin, music of the Son, and literature
of the Holy Ghost. The genuine sculptor
strives to convey pride through strength, the genuine painter to convey
pleasure through beauty, the genuine musician to convey love through goodness,
and, finally, the genuine writer to convey joy through truth.
33. Nationalism, corresponding to democracy, is a
neutron equivalent in between the proton equivalent of internationalism,
corresponding to autocracy, and the electron equivalent of supra-nationalism,
corresponding to theocracy. Democracy being a kind of
proton/electron compromise or balance within the neutron equivalent of the
Nation State, it follows that a State must first of all achieve independence
from autocratic internationalism before democracy can come to pass and the
People accordingly be in a position to achieve a long-term theocratic
supra-nationalism. For nationalism is
not an end-in-itself but a means to a supra-national end. Nationalism, like democracy, is
decentralized, because it signifies freedom from the centralized control of
autocratic internationalism, the imperialistic imposition on weaker
countries/peoples by a stronger power.
Yet when the peoples of such national states are given the opportunity
to vote for religious sovereignty, and thus achieve salvation from the world
(of political, judicial, and economic sovereignties), there will be a return to
centralized control on the basis of a Christ-like sacrifice of bearing 'sins of
the world' (those lesser sovereignties in relation to religious sovereignty) by
the followers of the Second Coming, in order that the People may be saved from
them. Yet such centralized control will
be localized, i.e. exist within the national framework, and thus be quite
distinct from the autocratic centrality of international imperialism, which
cuts across state boundaries. The
religiously sovereign peoples will have their own economic/political centres,
and their supra-nationalism will be religious and cultural - the unity,
voluntarily entered into, of the Saved.
34. Communist
autocracy melts towards Social Democracy as the hard-line proton equivalent is
superseded by a soft-line proton equivalent which will co-exist with the
soft-line electron equivalent of what may well be an embryonic Social
Transcendentalist Party in the neutron equivalent of democratic nationalism. The soft line is middle ground, and hence
democratic, whereas the hard line is extreme, whether autocratic, as in the
case of the Communist Party, or theocratic, following the democratic
achievement of religious sovereignty by the People, and the consequent bearing
of 'sins of the world' by a Social Transcendentalist administration in a
regional centralized aside to the ultimate mass sovereignty. Once such a theocratic sovereignty comes to
pass, as ultimately it must, the supercross will have
effectively eclipsed the star, and there will no longer be need of a democratic
compromise between the two. Conceived in
terms of our T-like framework, it would seem that the neutron equivalent of the
national State is rather more bureaucratic, and feminine, than democratic, if
by 'democracy' we mean a compromise, or balance, between protons and electrons,
social democracy and social theocracy, the soft Right and the soft Left:-
PROTON(PROTON/ELECTRON)ELECTRON
(autocracy)(democracy)(theocracy)
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(bureaucracy)
with, of course, the possibility of a truly
liberal compromise party coming in-between the soft proton and electron
positions, thereby constituting a Christic trinity of
democratic options. However, the
relativity of a social democracy should not, as with a capital democracy, be
economically conditioned, since there can be no scope for capitalist
exploitation of the People by a plutocratic elite, but would effectively be
with regard to the degree to which the People should be economically sovereign
on the one hand, primarily that of social democracy, and to the emergence of a
social theocratic alternative on the other hand, which would have the religious
sovereignty of the People as its long-term goal and be working towards the
democratic establishment of religious sovereignty and, by implication, the supersession of democratic relativity in due course. My belief is that considerations of socialist
economics, and its corollary of collectivism vis-à-vis state ownership of the
means of production, will be paramount in the early stages of Social Democracy,
until such time as Social Transcendentalism acquires greater definition and
religious considerations accordingly predominate, leading, eventually, to a
full-blown social theocracy in which there is neither state ownership nor
collective ownership of the means of production but Centre trusteeship of those
means - less materialist than cultural - in the interests of the religiously
sovereign People.
35. Impossible
to conceive of a free and genuine transvaluation, in
regard to the acceptance of religious sovereignty by the People, without the
concomitant necessity of nature being extensively undermined and transcended,
so that the People will not be exposed to the open-society acceptance of and
acquiescence in nature which keeps them tied to the alpha and in no position to
accept the omega - at least not fully, and hence to a completely transvaluated extent.
An acknowledgement of the Holy Spirit is, of course, possible in an
open-society context. But there is a
great deal of difference between acknowledging and actually being it ...
compliments of a democratic acceptance of religious sovereignty through the
Second Coming. Only after nature has
been effectively eclipsed by historical progress ... can a genuine transvaluation be embraced; one that is more than in name
only, but essentially a matter of life-and-death for its recipients. For it is either nature or the Holy Spirit,
not both! The People must choose and be
aware of the consequences of their choice.
And they must have the means to survive above and beyond nature once
that choice has been made, since being able to transcend nature positively as
well as negatively, constructively as well as destructively, is a precondition
of such a choice, without which it cannot reasonably be entertained.
36. Antinaturalism is a precondition of supernaturalism. Unless one is first against nature, one
cannot be for supernature. For supernature
cannot thrive while nature is extant, but only after it has been overcome.
37. Literature, when true to itself, is as
superior to music as truth to goodness, or joy to love.
Superior, that is to say as the Holy Spirit to Christ, the pursuit of
joy through truth to the achievement of love through goodness. But only he who is true will pursue
literature truthfully.
38. When
autocracy crumbles (as in the
39. Sculpture
is fundamentally a pagan art form, an art of the alpha star, and is never
'truer' to itself than when strength and pride are its chief concerns.
40. If
sculpture, when most 'true' to itself, corresponds to the Father and music to
the Son, then painting, when most 'true' to itself, corresponds to the Blessed
Virgin and literature ... to the Holy Spirit.
A naturalistic society will have a sculptural bias, in contrast (as
alpha vis-à-vis omega) to the literary bias of an idealistic society. Conversely, a realistic society will have a
painterly bias, in contrast (as purgatory vis-à-vis the world) to the musical
bias of a materialistic society.
Contemporary Western society, being materialistic, is a predominantly
musical society, with love, the essence of music, being its principal
concern. In this moon-struck society the
other arts are, to varying extents, marginalized and/or 'bovaryized',
in accordance with the prevailing materialism.
Painting is no less subordinate to music than Catholicism to
Protestantism, or the Blessed Virgin to Christ - the converse of what used to
be the case in the Catholic Middle Ages, when realism and, hence, painting was
the principal art form.
41. Authoritarian
monarchism is the autocracy of the Father; feudal democracy (or constitutional
monarchy) the democracy of the Father; Catholicism the theocracy of the
Father. Cromwellian
dictatorship is the autocracy of Christ; parliamentary democracy the democracy
of Christ; Protestantism the theocracy of Christ. Soviet Communism is the autocracy of the Holy
Ghost; Social Democracy the democracy of the Holy Ghost; Social
Transcendentalism the theocracy of the Holy Ghost. It is my belief that whereas autocracy starts
out strongly in the context of the Father, it becomes progressively weaker as
we move via the autocracy of Christ to the autocracy of the Holy Spirit,
whereas, from the converse standpoint, theocracy starts out weakly in the
theocracy of the Father and becomes progressively stronger as we move via the
theocracy of Christ to the theocracy of the Holy Spirit. Hence one could speak of a strong autocracy
of the Father (authoritarian monarchy), a medium-strong autocracy of Christ (Cromwellian dictatorship), and a weak autocracy of the Holy
Ghost (communism). In contrast to which
we would find a weak theocracy of the Father (Roman Catholicism), a
medium-strong theocracy of Christ (Protestantism), and a strong theocracy of
the Holy Spirit (social transcendentalism).
The democratic positions of the Father (feudalism), the Son
(parliamentarianism), and the Holy Spirit (social democracy) would be
relatively medium strong in each case, as befitting a middle-ground context.
42. However,
although the Trinitarian divisions listed above pertain to Western
civilization, and thus to the 'modern world', beginning in Feudalism,
progressing to Capitalism, and culminating in Socialism, they have no real
relevance to the East, neither Near nor Far. In fact, it is precisely because Western
civilization is a transvaluated one, beginning in
autocracy and progressing via democracy to theocracy, that it is the
'modern world', and hence evolutionary.
For Eastern civilization had no such transvaluation,
but was rooted in theocracy, the theocracy, more specifically, of the Creator
(Jehovah, Allah, etc.) from which, to a limited extent, democratic and
autocratic alternatives stemmed in due devolutionary fashion. Thus while the West was evolutionary, the
'ancient world', as we may call the East, remained largely devolutionary and,
as regards Islam and Judaism, continues to remain so to this day, being rooted
in Creator-theocracy and having no evolutionary momentum or dynamic, neither in
regard to the Father, the Son, nor the Holy Spirit, as outlined above in the
successive progressions of Western civilization from Feudalism to Socialism via
Capitalism. Where the devolutionary
regression from theocracy to autocracy via democracy applies, as in the Islamic
world, we are effectively dealing with ancient-world primitivism, with a naturalism
that, being untransvaluated, remains diametrically
opposed to the evolutionary realism, materialism, and idealism of the
successive stages, or manifestations, of Western civilization. Certainly no transvaluation
can be expected where this ancient-world mentality prevails, as throughout the
Islamic world, and it is my belief that it will not be possible for the
evolutionary dynamic of Western civilization to attain to its peak in the
theocracy of the Holy Spirit, the theocracy of theocracies and omega-of-omegas,
until and unless those peoples still enslaved to the theocracy of the Creator,
the alpha-of-alphas, have been freed from their enslavement and encouraged to
join the evolutionary march of the free spirit towards its omega destination in
total salvation. Then and only then will
the triumph of the West be complete, and its evolutionary dynamism fully
vindicated!
43. Sculpture,
being naturalistic, is the oldest of the arts, the one most pertinent to the
'ancient world', with its untransvaluated binding to
alpha theocracy. Then comes painting,
which is essentially a Western art form, and one
especially pertinent to the feudal and medieval manifestations of the 'modern
world', with its worldly realism. After
which we find music which, in its lunar materialism, is the art form most relevant
to the capitalist and liberal manifestations of the modern world, the
contemporary age par
excellence. Finally we have
literature, the youngest and most idealistic of the arts, which should reach
full maturity in the socialist and transcendentalist manifestations of the
'modern world', the age which, though inevitable, will not fully materialize
until the 'ancient world' is finally defeated and civilization progresses to an
unequivocal identification with omega theocracy. Then and only then will idealism have reached
a civilized peak and literature, preferably on computer disc, along with it, a
literature which is so truth orientated as to be effectively superconceptual, the prelude to pure meditation.
44. Alpha
and omega are incommensurable, and until alpha is
discredited and overthrown, omega will lack credibility and true moral
standing. It will remain more a dream
than an actuality. Hence
not only the defeat of the 'ancient world', but of nature, autocracy, strength.
45. Though
literary tapes, or cassettes of the spoken word, have a right to existence and
are of an unquestionable benefit to society, they are as inferior to computer
discs, for purposes of literary dissemination, as ... the oral transmission of
literature to the printed word, the reason being that the audible, being
naturalistic, is inferior to the optical, which, in its idealism, stands to the
former as light to heat, or omega to alpha.
If literary dissemination begins orally, it ends optically, whether through
the printed word or, increasingly in the future, through the electronic word on
the Visual Display Unit (VDU) of computers.
If the oral transmission of the word is populist,
then its optical transmission can only be classical, an omega flowering from an
alpha soil. Thus as the oral
transmission of the word through the medium of cassettes is alpha, and hence
pertinent to an autocratic stage of People's civilization (the civilization of
the Holy Ghost), it should follow that this autocratic populism will, in due
course, be superseded by a democratic balance, as it were, between literary
cassettes and literary discs, or computer discs used for literary purposes,
which should in turn be superseded by a theocratic classicism in which,
compliments of the acceptance of religious sovereignty by the People and its
concomitance of salvation in the light, literary discs become the presiding
norm, a norm paving the way, through the word as light, for the spiritual
light-of-lights in the contemplative purism of ultimate essence, the
full-flowering of the superconceptual in
transcendental meditation.
46. Race
is to the devolutionary ancient world what class, profession, and ideology (in
that order) are to the evolutionary modern one, that is to say, the principal social
characteristic of the age of naturalism, no less than class is the principal
social characteristic of the age of realism, profession the principal social
characteristic of the age of materialism, and ideology the principal social
characteristic of the age of idealism.
Using Spenglerian epochal distinctions, one
might argue that race corresponds to 'Historyless
Chaos', class to 'the Culture', profession to 'the Civilization', and ideology
to 'Second Religiousness' - in that chronological order of historical periods
stretching from the alpha to the omega of human civilization. Thus one might define the twentieth century
as the age of the profession par excellence, since it corresponded to the age of
materialism, 'the Civilization' in Spenglerian parlance,
and thus to the Christic period of Western
civilization, with particular reference to its political and economic
manifestations in Liberalism and Capitalism.
The coming age of idealism, on the other hand, can only be ideological,
as befitting its spiritual essence as the evolutionary period corresponding to
the Holy Ghost, and such an ideological integrity can only be in opposition to
racism, as, superseding both class and profession, it strives to extend its
omega bias at the expense of outmoded alpha naturalism, of which race is, as
already remarked, the chief social characteristic. Now just as class, being realistic, is
wilful, and profession, being materialistic, intellectual, as pertaining to the
world and purgatory respectively, so race, being naturalistic, is soulful, and
ideology, being idealistic, spiritual, as pertaining to alpha and omega, or
paganism and transcendentalism respectively.
Now, no less than profession eclipsed class in the former context, so
ideology must eclipse race in the latter one - and eclipse it not merely
relatively, as in the former context, but absolutely, as befitting the
incommensurability, within their extreme contexts, of alpha and omega, the
ancient world and the furthest reach of the modern one.
47. No
less than autocracy, democracy, and theocracy constitute a sort of Blessed
Trinity of masculine options stretching from alpha to omega, so do science,
politics, and religion ... in that order.
For science is to autocracy what politics is to democracy and religion to
theocracy, which is to say, its practical essence, and no less than autocracy
is scientific, so democracy is political and theocracy religious. In the West, or 'modern world', science is
objective and religion subjective, as reflecting the centrifugal and
centripetal natures of alpha and omega, with their corollary of collectivism
and individualism, society and selfhood respectively. In the East, or 'ancient world', science
is/was subjective and religion objective, given the fact that, in contrast to the
West, Eastern civilization was rooted in theocracy and thus, by implication, in
a centrifugal and collective religion which had an objective essence vis-à-vis
the Creator and His worship/propitiation thereof, whereas science, appertaining
to the autocratic, could only be centripetal and individual, as befitting the
subjective. Hence the science of
astrology, or the 'influence' of the 'heavenly bodies' on the individual, which
followed from a subjective premise, and which existed in antithetical complement
to the religious objectivity of astronomy.
To us Westerners, astrology is occult and astronomy science, but that is
only because, unlike the ancient East, we are transvaluated,
and thus disposed to regard the objective scientifically and the subjective
religiously, albeit our own religious subjectivity is quite distinct from the
scientific subjectivity of astrology, in consequence of which we are not
disposed to regarding astrology in genuinely religious terms. Our God is not the Creator, viz. Jehovah,
Allah, etc., but the Father - Son - and Holy Ghost of the Blessed Trinity in
progressively more omega-oriented subjective terms.
48. The Pilgrimage to Mecca, which is so crucial to the Islamic
world, is a reflection of the collectivism of alpha-oriented objectivity, and
is thus something totally alien to and inconceivable within the framework of
Western society. To us, the crowd is a
refutation of God, i.e. omega-oriented subjectivity, and thus not something
that we can interpret in religious terms, since more congenial, in its
alpha-oriented objectivity, to modern science, wherein the centrifugal takes
precedence over the centripetal, and the individual is accordingly subordinated
to the collective. No less than we
reject collectivism with regard to religion, the East rejects individualism
with regard to it, considering that alpha and omega are antithetical, and that
which pertains to the one is effectively a threat to and refutation of the
other. The lone figure of Christ,
suffering by Himself in the
49. Jehovah
Witnesses are perhaps the most paradoxical of all Christian sects, the reason
being that they endeavour to reconcile Christ with Jehovah, the 'modern world'
with the 'ancient one', and to speak of the former through the latter. But in practice this is a contradiction in
terms, since Christ appertains to the Western world, with particular reference
to its bourgeois manifestation, whereas Jehovah, like Allah, appertains to the
Eastern one, the world rooted in Creator theocracy and enslaved by it. Jehovah is the alpha and Christ to some
extent the omega, at any rate to the extent of affirming the 'Kingdom of
Heaven' within the self, and thus effectively pointing in the direction
of the Holy Spirit, the omega-of-omegas which is diametrically antithetical to
the alpha-of-alphas, viz. Jehovah. Those
who uphold belief in Jehovah are simply the slaves of objective theocracy. For Jehovah is alone sovereign. Those, on the other hand, who believe in the
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50. The autocracy of drinking wine, beer, or cola from a
bottle. The theocracy
of drinking wine, beer, or cola from a can. The democracy of drinking wine, beer, or cola
from either a bottle into a glass on the Right or a can into a glass on the
Left, with the possibility of a liberal, centrist compromise between the two in
the guise, more probably, of barrel into glass.
Now since, in my view, wine corresponds to the Father, beer to the Son,
and cola to the Holy Ghost, it will follow that wine drunk from a bottle, a
glass, or a can corresponds to the autocracy, democracy, and theocracy of the
Father; beer drunk from a bottle, a glass, or a can corresponds to the
autocracy, democracy, and theocracy of Christ; and cola drunk from a bottle, a
glass, or a can corresponds to the autocracy, democracy, and theocracy of the
Holy Spirit. If there is or could be
such a thing as the bureaucracy of drinking wine, beer, or cola, as relative to
the Blessed Virgin, and hence by worldly implication to a bodily neutrality in
between proton and electron extremes, it would probably take the form of
barrels, kegs, containers, etc., though I, for one, rather doubt the
applicability of such mind-altering drinks to a bureaucratic and hence feminine
mean, preferring to speculate in terms of the applicability of milk and fruit
juices to it within a bottle - glass - can/carton triad stretching from fruit
juices in the context of the Father, or the bureaucracy thereof, to flavoured
milk and/or milk shakes in the context of the Holy Ghost via plain milk in the
context of Christ, milk having to do with the Mother (Blessed Virgin) and thus
being closer to the Son than, say, fruit juices, which are rather more
naturalistic in their derivation from nature (fruit) and vitamin-providing
essence. To me, fruit juices are the
bureaucratic complement to wine, no less than milk to beer and milk shakes to
cola.
