Allism

Allism is the name I gave my philosophy, and in various essays I call an interpretive method “allistic” or a set of philosophical set of principles “Allism” – but in this essay, I present Allism as a system for global politics and world religion. It stands yet in need of further work from greater experience; yet I am satisfied it holds the germ to grow to what I wish it to be.

 

Daniel

 

 

Allism

 

 

With Antecedents

 

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WITH antecedents;        

With my fathers and mothers, and the accumulations of past ages;         

With all which, had it not been, I would not now be here, as I am:            

With Egypt, India, Phenicia, Greece and Rome; 

With the Kelt, the Scandinavian, the Alb, and the Saxon;              

With antique maritime ventures,—with laws, artizanship, wars and journeys;    

With the poet, the skald, the saga, the myth, and the oracle;     

With the sale of slaves—with enthusiasts—with the troubadour, the crusader, and the monk;  

With those old continents whence we have come to this new continent;             

With the fading kingdoms and kings over there;                 

With the fading religions and priests;     

With the small shores we look back to from our own large and present shores; 

With countless years drawing themselves onward, and arrived at these years;  

You and Me arrived—America arrived, and making this year;     

This year! sending itself ahead countless years to come.              

 

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O but it is not the years—it is I—it is You;             

We touch all laws, and tally all antecedents;       

We are the skald, the oracle, the monk, and the knight—we easily include them, and more;      

We stand amid time, beginningless and endless—we stand amid evil and good;               

All swings around us—there is as much darkness as light;             

The very sun swings itself and its system of planets around us; 

Its sun, and its again, all swing around us.            

As for me, (torn, stormy, even as I, amid these vehement days,)             

I have the idea of all, and am all, and believe in all;          

I believe materialism is true, and spiritualism is true—I reject no part.      

 

Have I forgotten any part?          

Come to me, whoever and whatever, till I give you recognition.               

 

I respect Assyria, China, Teutonia, and the Hebrews;     

I adopt each theory, myth, god, and demi-god;

I see that the old accounts, bibles, genealogies, are true, without exception;       

I assert that all past days were what they should have been;      

And that they could no-how have been better than they were,

And that to-day is what it should be—and that America is,          

And that to-day and America could no-how be better than they are.      

 

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In the name of These States, and in your and my name, the Past,              

And in the name of These States, and in your and my name, the Present time. 

 

I know that the past was great, and the future will be great,       

And I know that both curiously conjoint in the present time,      

(For the sake of him I typify—for the common average man’s sake—your sake, if you are he;)  

And that where I am, or you are, this present day, there is the centre of all days, all races,           

And there is the meaning, to us, of all that has ever come of races and days, or ever will come. 

 

Walt Whitman:  Leaves of Grass.

 

 

                Thus Whitman felt, in his cosmic consciousness, of America as the unifying of the world. This same sentiment is the germ of Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil, the very reason for the book, which he summarizes in Book 8, section 256, a center of gravity and double mirror by which the preceding seven books are consumed and epitomized, and spread again through book 9: “What is Noble,” an extended footnote on the type of person 256 presents as the unifier and purpose of a unified Europe, the master race, the best of all Europe’s races, brought together and stratified into high mountain air of Europes Owners.

 

 

Book 8: People And Fatherlands, Section 256

 

Owing to the morbid estrangement which the nationality-craze has induced and still induces among the nations of Europe, owing also to the short-sighted and hasty-handed politicians, who with the help of this craze, are at present in power, and do not suspect to what extent the disintegrating policy they pursue must necessarily be only an interlude policy—owing to all this and much else that is altogether unmentionable at present, the most unmistakable signs  are now overlooked, or arbitrarily and falsely misinterpreted, namely, this: EUROPE WISHES TO BE ONE.

 

With all the more profound and large-minded men of this century, the real general tendency of the mysterious labour of their souls was to prepare the way for that new SYNTHESIS, and anticipate in imagination the European of the future; only in their simulations, or in their weaker moments, in old age perhaps, did they belong to mere ‘fatherlands’—they only rested from themselves when they became ‘patriots.’ I think of such men as Napoleon, Goethe, Beethoven, Stendhal, Heinrich Heine,  Schopenhauer: it must not be taken amiss if I also count Richard Wagner among them, about whom one must not let oneself be deceived by his own self-misunderstandings (geniuses like him have seldom the right to understand themselves). They are akin, fundamentally akin, in all the heights and depths of their requirements; it is Europe, the ONE Europe, whose soul presses urgently and longingly, outwards and upwards, in their multifarious and boisterous art— whither? into a new light? towards a new sun?

 

But who would attempt to express accurately what all these masters of new modes of speech could not express distinctly? It is certain that the same storm and stress tormented them, that they SOUGHT in the same manner, these last great seekers! All of them steeped in literature to their eyes and ears—the first artists of world literature—for the most part even themselves writers, poets, intermediaries and blenders of the arts and the senses (Wagner, as musician is reckoned among painters, as poet among musicians, as artist generally among actors); all of them fanatics for EXPRESSION ‘at any cost’—I specially mention Delacroix, the nearest related to Wagner; all of them great discoverers in the realm of the sublime, also of the loathsome and dreadful, still greater discoverers in effect, in display, in the art of the show-shop; all of them talented far beyond their genius, out and out VIRTUOSI, with mysterious accesses to all that seduces, allures, constrains, and upsets; born enemies of logic and of the straight line, hankering after the strange, the exotic, the monstrous, the crooked, and the self-contradictory; as men, Tantaluses of the will, plebeian parvenus, who knew themselves to be incapable of a noble TEMPO or of LENTO in life and action— think of Balzac, for instance,—unrestrained workers, almost destroying themselves by work; antinomians and rebels in manners, ambitious and insatiable, without equilibrium and enjoyment; all of them finally shattering and sinking down at the Christian cross (and with right and reason, for who of them would have been sufficiently profound and sufficiently original for an ANTI- CHRISTIAN philosophy?);—on the whole, a boldly daring, splendidly overbearing, high-flying, and aloft-up-dragging class of higher men, who had first to teach their century-and it is the century of the MASSES—the conception ‘higher man.’

 

Let the German friends of Richard Wagner advise together as to whether there is anything purely German in the Wagnerian art, or whether its distinction does not consist precisely in coming from SUPER-GERMAN sources and impulses: in which connection it may not be underrated how indispensable Paris was to the development of his type, which the strength of his instincts made him long to visit at the most decisive time—and how the whole style of his proceedings, of his self-apostolate, could only perfect itself in sight of the French socialistic original. On a more subtle comparison it will perhaps be found, to the honour of Richard Wagner’s German nature, that he has acted in everything with more strength, daring, severity, and elevation than a nineteenth-century Frenchman could have done—owing to the circumstance that we Germans are as yet nearer to barbarism than the French;— perhaps even the most remarkable creation of Richard Wagner is not only at present, but for ever inaccessible, incomprehensible, and inimitable to the whole latter-day Latin race:

 

The figure of Siegfried, that VERY FREE man, who is probably far too free, too hard, too cheerful, too healthy, too ANTICATHOLIC for the taste of old and mellow civilized nations. He may even have been a sin against Romanticism, this anti-Latin Siegfried.

 

 

 

            Nietzsche speaks of a generation of experimental thinkers seeking European Unifiers – “Napoleon, Beethoven, Goethe…” – yet this unifying of a continent, as necessary and inevitable as it is, fell down upon a few false tries: Napoleon and the Nazis were driven by the same desire by solidarity, however misguided their execution proved to be. And that same desire exists in all men, not simply a world crystal, One world Government, and only one government for all men, but layers and spheres of government, a heavenly music of the celestial spheres, and this is the song that itches in our ear as well. The nineteen hundreds suffered greater injuries than warfare. The intellectual lineup more than equaled Nietzsche’s unifiers. We had our Freud, Eliot, Picasso, Stravinsky, Einstein, Schoenberg, Joyce – brilliant men, and hence horrible. But also necessary, for the heart of romanticisms could not immediately transfigure the mind of enlightenment – the disintegrative interplay was needed. Economy too is mere superstructure: the foundation lies in the living philosophy of the world’s best men. This alone is fate and fatal.

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I will speak briefly to you of Allism.

            Allism instructs: Affirm everything, and affirm it all in the direction of growth. Affirm some things dead, affirm others whole. Give your yes to all things, a qualified yes that loves like a mother or cuts like a razor.

            A union of unions of course includes a union of West and East. If you follow my flight of fancy, I can spiral you a little closer to the heart of Allism.

            The East is circular, the West linear. The East is about the Tao, the way, the womb. The sun is given birth in the East. It is all intuitions – “the Path that can be passed is not the eternal path, the name that can be named is not the eternal name.” Escape your habits, drop thinking, hum the holy Om. And the universe is one thing: drop distinctions. It all is a great circle, the wheel of dharma, the eightfold path. Breath in breath out, around around we go – samsara! cycles!  And the circle becomes a nightmare – Buddha begins to worry! How do we escape the wheel of samsara? How do we get at the nothingness at the center of the wheel? We must cancel our flame and cease to strive, cease to be – Nirvana!

            The West is linear. Starting with the pyramids: straight up to heaven. History is a straight line. Everything runs by logos, and logos is that which can be known, said, spoken—the spoken word. Logic is a three part succession: All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore Socrates is mortal. The sun dies into the West. It goes under. It is mortal! Mother earth eats him back into her womb. All good things must come to an end. History too is a great straight line. And then the Western nightmare: Does history just go on for infinity? Even after we die? Yes, the line of history branches in two: either a straight line forever in heaven, or a straight line forever in hell. Hell is the parallel line to heaven, lower in fire. History will come to an end. On the last day, the earth will be destroyed: choose your eternal destiny.

            Circles and lines, lines and circles. The circle is a nightmare: how do I escape the circle? Go to the center. The line is a nightmare: how do I escape the line? Ride it upwards.

            What is Allism? It is line and circle. The sine wave is line and circle. Forever a repeating rhythm, forever a novel melody. Like the strings of a guitar. They have a limited length, but you can play infinite melodies upon them. The string vibrates in sine waves, and the sine waves make an infinite amount of overtones. Strings that are alike resonate alike.

            The West is materialism, the East spiritualism. Perhaps the spirit is a form of matter? Perhaps matter contains spirit? Like the sine wave: both circle and line. One thing with two tendencies.

            Science is the schism, the breaking down of matters in analysis. The sun is devoured. Art is the synthesis, the combining of all things together. The sun is born. And thus matter is the mother who eats and breaks things down, and synthesizes them again in her womb to make a new thing.

            All things beautiful, powerful, glorious, true, subtle, perfect, and lovely in the world resonate to each other. They combine towards a greater whole. All that is great becomes greater, for eternity more. A straight line of every increase, a circle of resonance.

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I am a Monist, who believes The All is the greatest existing thing, and deserves our contemplation, and therefore not our praise.

            What is the All? This you do not know. I listen to the religious men, I listen to the atheists, I listen the philosophers and I am sick with contempt as I am for all suicidals. Man proper is humanist. I am all. As it is we have suicidals. They all know it is sui or suicide, selfish or selfless, and they choose suicide. But not being man enough to kill themselves, they choose the coward’s suicide, which they call faith, conviction, reason. If faith, reason, conviction, society, family, or any other deceive, even if it is truth and calls itself truth, if any of these offend you, pluck it out, crucify it, stick it down and burn it. What matters to me in all the world is me myself.

            So far, the all of mankind is approached statistically. A country that consumes a given amount of coffee will change its group spirit. Collectively, they are that much more energetic, that much more irritable. National diets determine national temperaments, and this affects and infects those who don't drink coffee or eat fast food, or whatever else the group does.

            Just as a few cancer victims sink their pain into the group-mind, a few zealots zing the hearts of thousands, and so forth: the diet and exercise of every man feeds into the Leviathan, the group-feel, the group-think, the group-spirit. Nothing you do is without consequence. Every little choice is thick with significance.

            And still, the less one belongs to himself, the more he wants to belong to the group.

            Therefore, amidst my selfishness I see this: A man, when he is centered in his place, is by consecutive spheres, alined with the world and universe as a whole, in which case – selfishness is his duty. Allism is the overmap, the overgoal, which orients each man to his own best interest which is also the best interest of the whole.

 

 

One world Religion

 

            This One World we seek implies our One World Religion.

            What will the one world religion look like? If we find so many absurdities and crimes in each of the established world religions, how could we possibly unite them all under one banner? What banner would they all agree to?

            The banner they must agree to: the humanist banner. All the world religions are followed by human beings, living on earth. This is no mundane detail, but the essential fact. That each of us is a human being, and each of us lives on the planet earth is a great unification.

            What are our preliminary goals? We seek to optimize humanity. Humankind is each human’s highest object of concern and adoration—all else are traps and beggars away from his best purpose. Humankind undoubtedly wastes much of its resources on wars. How much of our creative life, our money and daily concerns, are spent on wars and governments? These efforts detract from human happiness, even though they may pay dividends here and there. We are familiar with the statistics that show that starvation could be solved a hundred times over if we gave in our arms. Assuming that the world’s population wouldn’t simply double double double until there would be more starving people than ever, what’s stopping us? In a word: fragmented government. And the solution is the better word: One World Government.

            Our goal is no less then this: One Government, One language, One Religion, One Currency, One set of Rights, One Law. We do not oppose diversity, but are its best defenders, because we wish one law to allow diversity as well as unity, to allow correspondence as well as shared effort. How rich is the world and impoverished the nations. We are cut off from each other. Language and politics separate. See now how the world learns English, and after that the One Language it will become, how it connects to the Internet, and after that breaks the barriers of custom and distance.

            English is working itself out, but the specific language we share matters less than the unifying function of whatever language we gain. We require the world language and our own language. The world language is the basic language we all share, let us cling to our local dialects as we wish. In the same way, our shared world religion will be a skeleton readily recommendable to this religion or that, and yet limiting all religions in relation to each other, and setting them in global order.

            We have fate on our side. The world unites, one world government already exists, between the sub-governments, one world language grows, one world religion emerges: they already live in the world. The One World: we must scent her out and make her over in our image: we must invest our lives to uniting the world, to speed the inevitable, as we ourselves are inevitable. For the future is not set: one world yes, but whether good or better, that is for us to determine.

            “One world religion.” Religion is systematized importance which emphasizes supernaturalism. Philosophy is systematized importance which emphasizes rationalism. But we redefine supernaturalism as consciousness, and consciousness as a property of all matter. But to make the terms useful and meaningful, we will say that with regard to importance, religion is the heart, philosophy the mind, and both become parts of our lifeway. A philosophy is a worldview, but a religion is an attitude. They combine in one life.

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            Every worldview is implicitly Allistic, for since it is a worldview, it must view everything in the world, including contrary worldviews, sympathetic worldviews, attacks and benefits, and also itself in the action of looking at these other worldviews. Any system that is complete must at least attempt to explain all the other systems.

            Thus, Christianity must explain Judaism, must explain Islam, must explain Mormonism, cannot stay neutral on any other religion, but has to be fundamentally against them in order to survive. Mormonism must judge traditional Christianity corrupt, “the church of Satan,” in order to justify its own existence. Every worldview must be self-legitimizing. Insofar as any group intends to persist, it must believe in its own right, its own necessity for existing. This is what we call “faith in yourself,” “believing in yourself,” and ultimately, all faith and all believing in is faith in self, believing in self, the group, or whatever wants to survive. Not that groups admit this. Christianity believes God invented and intended Christianity, and that the Church exists as a “wife” to Jesus, that the Church is there for “the greater glory (and pleasure) of God.” But insofar as a group justifies itself by any rationale except the very joy of its existence, the group is spreading propaganda. “Art for art,” “Truth for truth,” “education for education,” and we get closer to the true reason these groups exist. Of course, to those outside the group, we care only how to use the group and avoid being used by the group. We wish to exchange money or words with the group, but we do not care why the group exists, unless we wish to dissolve it.

            Every belated group must rewrite history. Islam pretended that Adam, Moses, and Jesus were all Muslims, were all Islam before God, and that the appearance otherwise is because the Jews corrupted their religion. In order to justify himself, Muhammad had to rationalize how everybody in the world was wrong but him. He alone was the “seal” of the prophets, the only true spokesman for God, and his transmission of God’s words alone would never be corrupted. Why God didn’t give him the original Bible of Moses, or the original Gospel of Jesus, by which to blatantly expose the corruptions beside his freshly returned original? but instead only gave some desert poems about a pissed Allah?—only he knows that. God’s prank on the world is that he only reveals himself in such a way that an honest intellectual could never believe in him. He is like the hyper-intelligent aliens in UFOs who only kidnap drunken hicks, because in the end, who is going to believe their word?

            Mormonism, coming so late in humanity’s prehistory (history proper is just starting!), adds as a sacrament to Christianity the baptism of the dead, by which to make their religion related to the last four thousand years which lacked it.

            Atheism has spent much time destroying the claims of religious groups, especially Christian claims to truth, for of course Atheism is the final sect of Christianity, is more serious about God than any believer, because atheists are willing to doubt him to his face, and thus at least look upon him directly. Atheism grew out of France, where the first Christians threw off God and believed in reason alone. Since then, the work of Feuerbach and others has been to psychologize, mythologize, historicize, evolutionize, and moralize away everything preached under the rhetoric of religion. It is precisely this obsession with the deceptions of Christianity that make Atheism a denomination of Christianity, just as Muslims who worship God by destroying idols are therefore idolaters by that very act.

            These inherent and insoluble tensions, which being only as ideas and philosophies, and finally destroy whole continents – must be negotiated by the higher sphere of their unification. The antagonisms on a lower lever are united at a higher.

            Every worldview held by a human is necessarily a humanism. In this, we have different types of humanism, the different philosophies and theologies, the sorts of creativities that each religion supports them by.

            Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism—all humanisms, all focused constantly on humankind, all incapable of speaking of anything nonhuman except in relationship to and in terms of the human. Man is the center of every system. There is no escaping this.

            Humanism is the purified world philosophy, the purified world religion, which symbolizes and expresses them all. It is therefore necessarily the controlling element of the world religions, simply by ratiocreative irresistibility. It rules by meritocracy. There is no revolution, no violence, no propaganda necessary for this ruling of the world through humanistic philosophy. It is as it always was and always will be: the way of man.

 

Many World Religions

 

            Nothing single has integrity. It grows monstrous. Everything great requires checks and balances. Thus our One World Religion must be inwardly divided. A house undivided will never stand.

            Thus diversity must be part of the one. We call it harmony, even if it clashes. The clashing of the cymbals play their part too in a greater harmony.

            Right now we live under an impossible tree with countless trunks all twining and strangling each other, and above the vines and branches, the crowning flower of humanism. They all share this crown, they all depend thereon.

            Now we must flip the tree upside down: bury the crown as the tap root, and let all the religions spread as branches, each with their peculiar fruits, all from the one trunk of humanism.

            That is, we require systematizers and popularizers of the humanist agenda as the ideological solvent of the world. We require a basic humanism that everybody already agrees on, spoken in such a manner so they will realize they agree thereon, and by this we will be able to share a brotherhood. This is our unique millennial agenda.

            All the religions grew by chance. Crises were transformed into opportunities by the clever priests; Bibles were fashioned; cults were christened. Now we have something new in our view. We know of civil engineers, also known as “civilians who engineer,” but we have always had a few bright stars who were civilization engineers. To script countries, nations, the world!

            Yes, and why not religious engineers? Why not study the world religions, study human needs, and discover what beliefs best fulfill man? Why not create religions like technology? Indeed, they are created this way, but by writers and poets. More rigorous and exacting work needs doing to explore the nature of human religiosity.

            Emerson was given a dream from his inner God: the angel said to him:  “eat the world,” and grasping this apple, he ate. He is the first of us. “I am the universe” Emerson said. Yes.

            Either one is great in himself, or he is great in nonself: the group, humanity, charity, God, saints, church, state, or whatever else. What does a man pride in: his accomplishments, or other’s recognition of his accomplishments? Insofar as a man refers to another in explaining his own worth, he is a man of the people. Most people are: they are not grand, but they belong. They follow, they socialize, they run with the race.

            Not so the creators. Not so the brilliant, the artists, the ubermensch, the Gods. Geniuses start religions, fools follow them. The world is necessarily foolish, needs his leaders, and the leaders themselves are refined followers.

            Grandiosos make for poor leaders. They are too inwardly focused to concern over a group. A leader is a follower who obeys the group mission. “The leader is a servant to all”—not quite. He is a controller of the group, and thus focused on the group. A leader is essentially a symbol of the group, and is thus controlled by the group. Insofar as the leader needs no group, he is grand, and sloughs off the others. But a good leader follows the possibilities and ideals of a group, and thus depends on it.

 

Allism

Allism: everything, from good to bad, from success to failure, all that exists and has that holy thing called life, must be put to work. This is Allism: everything works for the glory of working, and for the glorious future of more work. Creativity is everything. We are utter increase.

Consider the failure of pantheism. Pantheism claims that all is beyond good and evil, that good and evil are illusions. But since illusions necessarily exist and are valued, they must also be part of the “pan,” part of the “theism.” As soon as pantheism defines itself against any other school of belief, it contradicts itself. There must be a new synchronicity.

The unifying of all living religions does not mean the perpetuation of them all. Let what dies die. Indeed, I am neither interested in converting the fools to reason nor dashing the gods to earth. Why not? Simple: I do not believe there are eternally perilous consequences for any belief. Thus, while I regard all religions as essentially superstitions (i.e. supernatural), it is not my life mission to dispute this.

Instead, my whole message is addressed only to the intelligent, only to the creative thinkers who glow in the light of their peers. I live with my equals. For you I write, and never stupefy, simplify, or popularize my works.

And this comes with a strong dose of optimism. The world is not “ideal,” nor “perfect,” nor whatever nonsense they speak of. But our attitude is one of optimizing—we make the best living present in creating our best rewarding future.

Allism is the belief that the existence of the all allows all the parts their proper destiny: we can interpret everything positively. Every living word of man can be optimized, systematized, interpreted. We take everything as potentially important, and though we pull out the gold, we do not damn the rock.

Our image is the great Mother All. Like a human being, she grows and improves. She uses what exists to allow what could exist. From out of existence, the glorious insistence.

            The All is evitable as well as inevitable. Resistible and irresistible. Ultimately, we have the world.

            The all is no mere syncretism, for it recognizes the importance of boundaries. Nor is it denominationalism, because it recognizes the universals that surpass and allow boundaries. The All alone has no opposite, is her own opposite, is all things, has no other, is her own other, is all things. One cannot blaspheme the all. One cannot deny the all. One cannot think outside of the all. You are forever part of the all, and every one of your thoughts relates inevitably to all thoughts.

            Thus we take the world.

            We are fate. We are force. We are futurenow. We see the way of the universe, and we align our full power in such a way to let the full force of the universe to flow fully to our own selfish need. And thus we internalize the all, and are truly representatives of her.

            I am all. To be Allistic, there can be nothing you are not. I am Christian. Of course I am Christian, that much is obvious even in a casual reading of my writing. But I am also Muslim. I am Atheist. I am Mormon. I am Buddhist. There is no Jew who is more Jewish than I am.

            I quote the Book of Mormon—living proof that God has grown senile—and say with him in his greybeard boast, “Every book is written by God.” Insofar as we take God to be the creative faculty herself, we must give her the abstract and tautological credit for writing every book. Yet let us slip into spiritual interpretation.

            Every book is the same book. Every utterance the same utterance. We must be utter babblers to hear again the unity off all speech. “A is nonA” in that both “A” and “nonA” are equally concepts. “2+2=5”: I need to be no wordsmith to avoid that obviousness. Ignorance is strength against the learned, freedom is slavery to defending your freedom, and so on and so on.

            Western Materialism is the only successful materialism in the history of mankind. All forms of Eastern “monism” are really dualisms. But true physical blood-and-guts Materialism, from the likes of Lucretius onwards, agree that whatever you have in the universe, whether idea, emotion, stone, plant, God, it is essentially made of the same stuff, we are all the same stuff. Maya and Brahma are both made out of atoms.

            A spiritualized Materialism adds: we are all saying the same thing. And here we become babblers, we become intoxicated with Dionysian Wine that says, “Everything is everything!”

            I experienced this first perversity in my youth. I recall in high school learning that the first protozoan life form may have been made out of primordial clay. Immediately I added, “and his name was Adam!” I wished always to see the same thing, and with the Dionysian gift of psychotic eyes, I was allowed to finally see through the mask of it all. We are all the same. I am an Atheist Christian; I am Buddha fat as a cow on the pleasure of sense; I am Muhammad relabeling and selling back the Jews their own religion, and converting the Semites into Muslims; I am Joseph Smith, sheistering myself to be a prophet and by that very outrage becoming one; I am Jesus, myself a criminal, but by my followers, made to devour Yahweh himself and become World Savoir.

One world Language

                All books are one book, and all words are the same word. For us, glossalalia is not a flame, but a flood. We flow our regard of care everywhere. With a simple model of the harmony of the spheres, and the all of the the alma mater, we have our vision, and the rest is joyous detail.

            Flow is the ability to constantly translate experiences into different frames. If a man is allergic to the word “God” or “power” or “duty” what does that matter? Fighting over words is merely swapping spit. What matters is to communicate and express our visions, for all thought is meant to become language, and all language action.

            The ability to shift languages, swap meanings, and metaphorize, parabolize, riddle, turn, and squirm with language, that most pliant of floods, will allow another man to experience what you have experienced. We need factual beliefs in order to habitualize useful expectations. Language is a great success, and mankind is generally happy. But when disputes arise, they cannot be differences in facts, nor differences in self-evident experiences, but only disputes of words. The belief that any one word is important in itself leads to troubles. The needs themselves are a system, not a structure, and therefore, they self-define again and again. The center of man is a fire, every changing, ever the same.

            The central name I am is the same no matter when in history I showed up.

            This book, therefore, may appear heterogeneous, though I have worked hard to homogenize what amounts to a decade of thought—per the principles of Allistic integration of everything, I chose one tome rather than a series of essays—will nevertheless be read to implant only one guiding idea, unspeakable, because all ideas are basically unspeakable, being the means by which we perceive reality, not talk about it, and yet it will change the way you view the world, my purpose for you as my reader. And I call the philosophy Allism, though the name is unimportant. We talk of the idea in terms of an interpreting order of the former world into one complex organism. But the goals of the book, are not the idea I wish to impart, nor can an idea ever be said. Behind every preposition embedded in these sentences, behind all the math of meaning, is the self-same idea. It is gained by severe, insisting, single-minded work, fueled by the passion of a power infused with love.

All thought

            There can’t really be a difference can there? If Allism affirms all that already exists, how can it wish to change it all? Allism must have always existed in some form, and indeed, no belief could stick its head in the sand, but had to at least fudge an explanation of its competitors. The exclusivist religions damned the rival religions, the inclusive religions accepted the rival religions, and we must accept both, accept even the damning and the rivalry, and yet affirm the chronological harmonizing of them, so that discord has its place, and concord as well, all together in a perfect whole.

            The greatest fault in thinking comes from taking the part as the all, or worse, destroying the all in preference to the part. Yet most worldviews are of this nature.

            The crown of Allism is to affirm all that exists, and then to insist on a greater all. Since what exists is already part of the all, has its own history, power, and potential, and cannot be wished nor worried away, it must be used in whatever way it can to flow into a greater all. The problem is when a part becomes fixated so that it no longer flows into the all.

            We aim to overcome the difficulties in language. Violence between men arises from frustrations in language. Wise persons speaking the same language never violate one another. Violence comes from frustration, and frustration comes from miscommunication.

            There are no illusions; the light never lies. Allism sees where the opposites are knotted together. The great lies of mankind are in our NOTS.

            The standardization of English as a world language will last forever—will make history. Christianity was a tower of Babel meant to unify all men under a complex of images (symbolized by glossalia: chanting random noise), which speak to all men: a Godman put on the mystic cross for our sins—and all the rest. Christianity’s strong point was never in telling stories, the gospels themselves are poor stories, but they have strong symbols and deep wit, and that made the difference, the stories themselves were absurd, and because of their obvious absurdity, looked like parables.

            For us, our glossalia, our babble language, is not a set of symbols. It is a series of methods—applied without direct quotations or imitations, but from a masterful insight into their logic, applied to everything important in the world. We write it all over again as one great work. This is our urge, this our ergon.  Our tower to heaven is to heavenize the earth; nor do we wish to scale the sky—technology has already done that! We have danced upon the moon. We have beaten out the small-towered Babylonians with our skyscrapers, our jets, our satellites, our rockets to the mars, because we have the one-world-language of numbers. We achieved everything because the numbers could not be confused as the words were confused. And now we understand even how the words were confused, how warfare was caused by confusion of languages, and we at last speak directly.

            “We believe either/or logic is outmoded. Mankind now needs both-and,” such nonsense they speak, they refute themselves as soon as they define themselves. A mirror with an interior, that’s what they need. Perhaps then they would see that they can’t reject rejection.

            The self-overcoming of all logical distinctions is not the suicide of logical-distinctions, but it is akin to Nietzsche who said what he had to say to the world, and then turned for the last decade inwards:  He turned inwards early; the rest of you are more patient.

 

One World Movement

 

            We seek to achieve the inevitabilities of our human world, but in the best manner and not a mindless one;  namely:

One world government

One world constitution

One world currency

One world language

One world religion

            This is an old idea and this is a new idea. But the crucial idea to understand about our New World Order is that it is about decentralizing power. One world government to govern the governments. That is to say: an end to war, an end to rule, in fact, the achievement of the greatest freedom possible, complete freedom, freedom to do what is right for you to do, freedom to do whatever you wish insofar as it does no violence to others.

It is not anarchism, for there must be a legal system, there must be a limited police force, there must be politics. We want political systems, but we desire no government. What man dares govern me? The original needs no governance, and rightly revolts.

Therefore, there can be no “president of the world,” no “king of the world,” not even a “world committee,” but only an enforcement of nonviolence. Cultural wars, ideological wars, championships, competitions, these are good, but the use of violence and murder to promote ideas never made sense, has no basis in right, but only in the power of propaganda to dupe men to fight.

We are inevitability; the internet stands now as our greatest symbol. One world is inevitable, but it is not determined. It could be oppressive. It could be ignoble. It could be wrong. It is our place to create a one world order that works in allowing the greatest men to flourish. This is allowed by letting all men flourish through freedom, and those who are strong to be themselves. We open up a place for the master, race, the elite men of greatness from every race and nationality, to combine into a ruling class of courageous thinkers.

I speak nothing of revolutions, am not a communist who believes in an “end of all revolutions,” for revolutions revolve back upon us. I mean the growth of mankind into an integrated mind.

The One World Government need not be an official institution, but the intelligent dialogue of our wisest citizens, as it already is. This will become more pronounced and obvious soon.

And so the true one world government must necessarily be not “of the people, by the people, for the people,” people who would vote and pander to politicians willing to turn their country into a world enemy, as in early 21^st century America, but the government must be a community of the greatest minds in the world, attracted by mutual regard and shared interest for the health and happiness of Mankind. We become official and codified only insofar as this pulls the wisest of us in community. We do not unite by popularity contest elections, be race or heritage, by religious devotion, by devotion to our people, or anything else but by our power of ratiocreativity, humanist interest to empower ourselves, our families, our communities, our states, our countries, and our world on the principle of the supremacy of the individual to the group.

In fact, such groups are scattered throughout the world. Man is a social creature just as much as he is an solitary creature. We all form groups, clubs, coalitions, parties, gangs, armies, asylums, etc. Developing a central consciousness to think through all these parts, that is our task.

As for the typical powers of change, namely, money and violence, these are of secondary interest to us. We are nonviolent; we regard wealth as a limited good. We are free from valuing our ideas economically, or using them as propaganda.

ALL

            Allism. No other. I am this I am that. Yes, you are part and you are Allistic. You are All. There is no other. There is no nonall, no nonpart, no separate. And yet you are infinitely important, important in your uniqueness.

            When you say “not,” you knot the stream, you repress the notted thing. You become unconscious of its being, it gains power over you. By denying its reality, you have lost sight on and touch with its reality. You must be free to make the truth. Freedom before truth. You must see it for what it is. Either and or.  All and everything.

            Utopianism leads us nowhere. You must maximize the system from where you are at if ever the system is to self-overcome, to overthrow its contradictions.

            The All of Allism grows from the realities it already holds. We must look at the many potentials in all things, and choose the best overall system, the famous “best of all possible worlds” and work with wisdom and courage for this. This is our place and purpose.

 

 

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gloss on machiavelli

This a piece I had fun editing. Essentially, I have quoted, paraphrased, and edited a series of lines from Machiavelli’s Prince as if he were instructing a man to govern himself, rather than a kingdom.

 

daniel

 

Self-Mastery

as informed by Machiavelli

            The mind and heart are like a prince and his kingdom, habits the laws of that kingdom.

            One self-change always leaves you toothing for another. Therefore, continually wrestle yourself.

            Each of your desires speaks a language—a set of ideas and symbols to trigger and communicate the desire. Speak the same language as your desires; or if they are unspeakable, keep your mind close to them. If you usurp a vice, you must exterminate the premises behind it, but alter not the laws and costs of it, so that the power of the vice may be reconstituted.

            If your instincts have different languages, customs, or laws, you must afford great fortune and great energy to hold them, and set yourself upon them, to see when disorders spring up, and fix them immediately. Scatter your vices and old ways of life so that they are poor and unable to group together. Injure an arrogant vice in such a way that it can never recover to revenge.

            As with a fever, so a habit is easy to cure but difficult to detect, early on, but in the course of time, having neither detected nor treated it in the beginning, it becomes easy to detect but difficult to cure.

            When you do detect the vice, conquer it, ruin it, and then reside there in person and permit it to live under its own laws, drawing a tribute and establishing within it an oligarchy which will keep it friendly to you. Dismantle them but do not lose them.

            He who becomes master of a passion accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may be expected to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of “liberty,” and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. Passions never forget the name of liberty nor their privileges under it until they are disunited or dispersed. In a republic order of passoins there is more vitality, greater hatred, and more desire for vengeance, which will never permit them to allow the memory of their former liberty to rest; so that the safest way is to destroy them or to set upon them.

            We owe nothing to fortune beyond opportunity, which brought us no more than material to mold into the form that seems best to us. In this way, you acquire your mental kingdom with difficulty, but keep it with ease. The difficulties you endure in acquiring your kingdom arise in part from the new rules and methods which you are forced to introduce in order to establish your government and its security. There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. For your unconscious does not readily believe in new things until it has had long experience.

            When you rely on yourself and use force, you are rarely endangered. All armed prophets have conquered and all unarmed ones been destroyed. It is easy to persuade others, but difficult to fix them in that persuasion. When they believe no longer, you must make them believe by force.

            For what springs up quickly dies quickly. Only that which has slowly worked its roots wide will stand the storm. You must gain your powers by a thousand troubles and perils, and afterward hold them boldly.

            Those feelings of hope pledge themselves to you while danger seems far off. Therefore, orchestrate matters so that in all ways and in every circumstances the habits will need you and the empire of your will, so that your necessity for their liberty is undeniable. This shrewdness use: to be necessary.

            Rely therefore on your own resources and not that of others. Others are adverse to hard work: the greater your ostensible fortifications, the less they will molest you. Have enough resources to keep yourself stable for months and years.

            Good laws and good arms are the basis of all states. Those who would motivate you, mercenaries and auxiliaries, are useless and dangerous.

            A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline; for this is the sole art that belongs to him who rules, and it is of such force that it not only upholds those who are born princes, but if often enables men to rise from a private station to that rank. Those who think more of peace than of arms lose their states. Therefore, make it your daily practice to wrestle yourself and self-overcome.

            Never have out of your thoughts the subject of war, and in peace addict yourself more to its exercise than in war; by action and by study.

            Keep your will well organized and drilled to follow incessantly the chase, by which you accustom the body to hardships, and learn something of the nature of localities, and get to find out how the inner mounts rise, how the valleys open up, how the plains lie, and to understand the nature of rivers and marshes, and in all this to take the greatest care. Your marshes are everybody’s marshes: what you learn here applies there.

            In times of peace, be ever studying war. Read histories, and study the actions of illustrious men, to see how they have borne themselves out in war, to examine the causes of their victories and defeat, so as to avoid the later and imitate the former. Alexander imitated Achilles, Cesar Alexander, Scipio Cyrus.

            Never in peaceful times stand idle, but increase your resources with industry in such a way that they may be available to you in adversity, so that if fortune changes it may find you prepared to resist her blows.

            Do wrong insofar as you need to for survival. It is well to appear to have all virtues, but do not sacrifice yourself for them. A virtue must work for you.

            Therefore, inspire fear in yourself in such a way that if you do not win love you will avoid hatred.

            Hannibal managed an unruly army because he was inhumanly cruel, which, with his boundless valor, made him revered and terrible in the sight of his soldiers, but without that cruelty his other virtues were not sufficient to produce this effect.

            Be a fox and lion; because the lion cannot defend himself against snares and the fox cannot defend himself against wolves. Drop a virtue if it drags. Therefore, a wise lord cannot, nor ought he to, keep faith when such observances may be turned against him, and when the reasons that caused him to pledge it exist no longer. Therefore, disguise the fox.

            To appear virtuous you must above all guard your lips.

 

 

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further thoughts on courage

 

Courage and cowardice

 

Perhaps you are no coward

would not really fear a mob

Just because they happened to be many

And you one!

 

The One is always greater than the many

Because when you multiply fractions,

They diminish

But when you multiply anything whole

It grows.

 

Any man who is also men

Is less thereby

He compromises himself

One true man is greater than the world.

 

 

            A man is timid, apologetic, weak, miserable. The advice given is "trust yourself, be courageous, fear not rejection,"––as if his inconfidence lacked meaning. Rather do I say "doubt yourself all the more, worm that you are, for it is in good reason that the confident man loves himself and you despise yourself. Your inconfidence is a stroke of brilliance––trust it for what it is: a signal to analyze your faults and to reinterpret them as virtues, transform them, or eliminate them altogether. Only when you have doubted the sand will you find reason for the rock, giving a firm basis for your confidence.” It is the severe self doubter who harbors the foundation of the greatest confidence.

            To take your opinion from another, never do this.Iinvent your own truth, instigate your own judgment. Do not wait for praise and say "Ah! I must be a good singer, for behold this praise." Rather, laugh at your own jokes. Judge yourself and expect this to be the universal verdict of all wise people. This makes you eccentric and strange, and so all great men appear to their contemporaries.

            Your sacrament is to trust yourself.

            Whining, complaining, pouting, blaming, shirking, revenging––all unmanly virtues, all boyish and absurd. What is manly and womanly? What is strong and confident? Loving oneself, and so loving the truth, loving reason, loving justice, loving beauty, and willingly suffering for them in their attainment and preservation.

            Be a man. Formulate and interpret your past in a way that gives you the most power; be in the habit of attributing control to your decisions, and act accordingly.

            Control your reactions to others. Loving others means enduring their words. You must be powerful enough for this. This power comes from profound self respect, which cannot be faked. It can be earned, nevertheless, by analyzing the words of others and seeing even their insults and cruelties as symptoms of love.

            If you want it, deserve it.

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            Sincerity is divine. Sincerity defeats all opposition, for we are not belligerent nor angry, but simply simple in our love. The others are sentimental, and this because of insincerity.

            What can our sincerity do? Consider what is privileged in this world. A marriage is sanctified because a priest is paid. A man feels handsome because a pretty face kissed it. A child's deeds are acceptable because mom and dad do the same. Now I show you a new power, you holy men: whatever you touch becomes pure. You may sanctify anything your heart loves. Whatever you practice is sacrament be it ever so base in another's eyes. Grant it the poetry which spiritualizes.

            Therefore, do not say: "I will assume my sin rather then debating it; I will declare my guilt just in case; I will make emblems of my error and marginalize my good deeds; I will claim lofty ideals and apologize that I am not worthy of them; I will malign my name and hope some brave knight defends my honor"––thus speaks weakness.

            Rather, we stand on our own two legs and create our own standards. The rejection of popular standard is not the rejection of standard. Rather it is the only honest appreciation of standard.

            Show backbone. Do not bend on a matter no matter how insignificant, if you are right. Nietzsche writes that we ought to take the blame of being wrong, especially when we are right—a show of greatness. And indeed, to insist on your own rightness, to have to insist at all, shows weakness. Being is its own insistence. Yet never deceive, and what an impertinence to suggest it, though one may take the punishment without the confession.

            And when you are tortured, when you are tormented, you must never submit, never give in. Sooner hell than give up. Prefer fire to forfeit.

            And it is a self-torture to become utterly true. To make a man true, you must make him ugly. What is true is ugly by the popular estimate. And even if it becomes beautiful, it is first ugly.

            Faced with death, Socrates laughed, Jesus sweat blood. It is obvious who was more man.

            One of my favorites was a young girl who was not a good singer according to most ears, but sweet enough to herself that she sang wherever she walked, on buses, at work, upon waking and as she combed her hair. Any lack of talent could scarcely mask the purity of mind and delicacy of heart behind that breath.

            For one must boast of life. Merit is no basis for boasting. Only self doubt must boast. Yet there is the boast of joy in the self, of our life and being.

            For the poets, they seek something noble to praise, and often are too noble to lie. They seek the worthy in order to prove that they themselves are worthy—and they are less the poets for it. The true poet doesn’t seek beauty, but has a beautiful eye which sees beauty everywhere.

            Put faith in yourself—nowhere else! If you lack that, no other faith will save you. If you have no faith in yourself, every other faith will kill you.

            For it is not self doubt which must be overcome: let it be encouraged! The reason for self doubt must be defeated. The doubt must be asked: are you functioning well? And what action do you call me to execute?

            We ought to distrust most what feels best. This is a first step and a continual step. Rub your eyes with a little cynicism whenever they are clouded with trusts and distrusts. Instincts are genius, and trusting your gut includes trusting the gut's cynicism.

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            As for the shy, let us learn a lesson from Tchaikovsky, that great musician, who was shy since a boy. For what reason? Because he was overly sensitive to pain (he cried out in terror in the night as a boy, for music wouldn't leave his head; his worst day was his separation from his mother; as an adult he couldn't appear before the Tsar because of timidity until he was doped up; he couldn’t conduct nor even attend most of his early symphonies). Those sensitive to pain foster a special sort of life, a certain repertoire of emotions, withholding outbursts, strong negative affects, anything that would devastate their fragile heart. For oversensitivity to pain makes one sensitive to nuances others overlook, and leads to exaggeration and withholdings others misunderstand. One develops a sort of discipline by compulsion––no self severity is even called for. The principle "Resist not evil," has been called a consequence of a state of oversensitivity. Shyness is simply a shrewdness for the overly sensitive; it reduces assault. In shyness, others feel as if they are greater than you, more important than you, because you shrink from them, because you are too tense for wit, because you generally displease in their company. Yet timidity can be a mere trick––one may even play at smallness––but he also realizes that greatness commands, and he must step out of this role to throw down the arrogance of whosever dares lay even his smallest finger on his work—no man has such a right over us. None but my peers possess even the ability to see my work. Tchaikovsky said "the whole of my discomfort is due to that I am very proud, that I am unable to sacrifice myself to others, even those very near and dear to me." This pride seemed shy, being instead great.

            Inwardness: an initial sensitivity or overactivity of the spirit which makes one vulnerable, followed by the shock of the external, a pain with three obvious consequences:

1. A strong memory impression.

2 A desire to redesign the defense.

3 A new power in the ability to repeat the reaction of pain through fearing it—wariness as strength—to enforce an intentional defense.

            And so while it might rightly be said, “Better confidently wrong than timidly right,” still, there is a time when you are better to be timidly wrong than confidently right, to develop the right attitude towards rightness and wrongness. For even the feeling of imperfection is a form of perfection, with place and time. Discontentment is part of maturity. Tremble at dawn, but at noon, shout your arrogance.

            Timid concern spreads more misery then bold brash. Be confident even if reckless. For fearful hands spread the most poison. The confident assault heals.

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            And again, what does a God have to do with being recognized as a God? That he has to say proves his animal, that he hints proves his child. It is precisely a God who must be the most humble of all. Then his animal and child also            are God.

            Confidence is beautiful. “God helps those who help themselves,” said Benjamin Franklin, To which a pastor I heard countered, “No, God helps those who can’t help themselves”—despite all evidence it seems! Reversals and inversions are second nature to Americans. However, for those too pathetic to help themselves, has there ever been an aura of divinity around them? Men help such people, or else the suffer to death. But to those who help themselves, they are the Gods, their spirit the Divine. Do not deny the obvious interpretation in favor of pretty ideals.

            For if the core holds, the outer may bend and quaver with no worries. But if the core melts, the outer must staunch and stone. It is like an egg that is wet yoke inside, and so rigid shell outside, but once the chick hatches, it is soft feathers and tender meat outside, and bones in the inner. Therefore, if you are inwardly uncertain, you will priggishly insist on outward signs of strength.

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            Even indecisiveness is a decision. Each man must himself choose, you cannot escape this, and all of life is continual choice. There are a thousand recommended roles, careers and marriages which make sense by external recommendation, or make sense by inner recommendation (dead echoes of the external), of peers and parents and well-meaning strangers—a thousand roles all evil and wrong. To be happy, you must be a fool. To be happy, you must do the self-evidently wrong, childish, lazy, ambitious. Dare greatness.

            The greatest faith in all the world, and no less great for its rarity, is to be faithful to yourself above the world. You must have full faith in yourself: this is the only faith that will save you, the only faith that will make you immortal, the only faith that is faith.

            The truth stands alone.

 

                I too walked my woods, and no she-wolf trifled with me, and had she nor would she soon forget it, because my thoughts were over difficult matters and trials of darker labyrinths than I yet heard reports of, when the summer warmth fell away from under my feet, and a thunderstorm had envoloped the woods and myself. Afternoon was now midnight, and since I was already lost in that mazy way, I had no place better to be. Soon thunder and lightning, soon that fevered flow of outrageous power I feel whenever thunder answers me. And I envisioned Pascal, bent over the same storm, asking his sky father to save a pathetic sinner. Disgust. I faced the brow of that strom –  over black a darker black – and I address him: “Do your worst. Thunder bells or deepest hells, what business do I have with you: go your way, I fear you not.” I walked my path, head up, chin high, browing the wind and rain whip—no matter: such fury gives me an inner peace.

            And now you settle over me like a piss drizzle intellectual? Have off! I need you stronger than this, if you are to ride at my side.

 

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wotan

1 – middle finger -- WOTAN

 

            Wotan is the one whom the word “God” invokes, both spirits grown from Germanic souls, this wandering God sings through me too. At this very moment a bolt exploded outside my door and set the car alarms screaming. So good to recognize the name of one’s Will. God I call my will, and will never call any other by such a divine name.

            In the Greek mythology, Kaos makes Eros and Earth; from Earth arises Uranos, from them Cronos, and Cronos undid the oneness of the world by dividing heaven from earth, three from four. This initial violence upon the material world is present in all mythologies, where often the material for the universe is bad,  as is the giant Ymir, who (though fed by the Cow Audhumla, type of the mother’s love, and this mother the birth from the salty water tiamat) is yet made from poison, is bad, until he is differentiated when the German trinity busts him up and turns his skull into the sky, his brain the clouds, his thoughts the wind, his blood the sea.

            Oneness becomes world, and the world is evil until it is differentiated, heirarchized, put into place, structured by will. Nothing is good till a man creates it. Nor is man made out of pure ymir, mere soil and clay, but he is carved from the noble ash, from the same stuff as the world tree, which touching the nine worlds stands for the womb of the motherverse, for man returns to the Ash, and Embla with him, and when the universe regrows a more complex cycle, gods are left behind, and man survives.

Gods are the father generation and the son generation: the overwill and the underwill. They stand for the mind of man.

All we call God is merely a name by which we hide the Will of mankind. God has amounted only and always to the will of Man. Man as one is monotheos, men as many are pantheos.

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            “Anki” means sky and earth, heaven and land, yin and yang, the dualizing of the one world.

            Let us digest these tender bits.

“Ea” is born of Ocean, is himself deep, like Poseidon, the God of wisdom. Therefore, he resembles both Maid Satan and also Sophia. No matter—archetypes are no mere concepts, they do not exclude each other.

            “Adam” is not Adonia, but really El himself, created by Elohim, but here, the simple equation will confound you, Adam = El, like a Buddhist Koan, which if I overexplained would blind rather than enlighten you: but here’s a breath of inspiration: God breathed his spirit into the clay of Adam – indeed, his whole breath, until he became Adam Enki; put in parallel with Jesus, the “second Adam, full God and full man” this mythic key will go a long way in enlightening you to treasures deeper than orthodoxy.

            “Cronos” is Saturn is El is Osiris is Tammuz – easy enough! And they are all Baal, bull, crooked horns, reapers, harvesters, crow beak. Zeus overthrows the Father God and rules in his place as a God of thunder.

            Eros and Kaos are two aspects of one person, the daughter of Man—Sophia. Together, they stand for Crea, or Care, another name for “Selecting of Focus,” moving together or apart. El and his son Ra, in themselves stand for the Rael, the Real of experience.

            El is left, is death, is time, is marriage; Ra is right, is light, is life, is oath is Odin. We speak of the week beginning and ending in rest: Sunday of Ra, Saturday of El, and together they are SS – Sanctus Spiritus.

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            Violence, full grown, self-overcomes into Justice, which in turn, self-overcomes into Mercy.

            El stands for Will, and thus is the God of dark, as Will is always dark, a viewer of the light, but not equal to it. “Make no image of me,” but the true image of him is Satan, who is unredeemingly in love with him.

            As the dark will, as the negative aspect, as the jealous, as the powerful, as the masculine, as the ugly, we see the male. The God of light, the angel of light, the morning star is always Satan and his mother Luciana. The God of Love must be warmth and beauty, must be the sun, and so the sun is the face of the mother, and indirectly also Sophia, Wisdom, Luciana.

            And yet the son of Wotan is Balder, the God who descends to hell but returns to rule the world – God life Light and Beauty. Who is light? Who is dark?

            For we know, earth is woman is darkness. And the feminine is the unconscious, the dark.  It must finally be that woman is black and white, and man is some admixture of color. He stands between the external light and the internal night. He is transitional figure, the will, the gate, the door. Man is the transition from darkness to light, from light to darkness, the months spring, the March Ram, the edge, the arrow, the expander, the teeth that eat.

            There is a Will within the unconscious, another consciousness, our Second, which is sometimes called Animus or Anima, the black eye in the Yang, the White eye in the Yin.

            Consciousness is matter, and in human beings, deepened, opened, allowed. The Father stands for will, force, violence, and those for Virtue—the great creators and sustainers of mankind. The passions, the feelings, the neurotics who want to save mankind, and thus, the Christ, who wants to be “in the Father,” is the great homosexual urge, the fear of the Mother, who, though prophesized to pierce her heart is instead himself pierced four times on her body.

            Will is consciousness, and there is no unconscious will. Yet what we call “Father,”what those lacking will instead sacrifice to, pray and worship, is the power of all life, the great logos of the ratiocreativity.

            The four parts played by man in regard to the Father, as Saint, Philospher, Poet, and Hero are thus: the hero figuratively kills his father, for only in this way can he honor him. The Poet has his mother’s tongue, and like the Saint, must necessarily enact homosexuality, must lust and fear his father. The thinker comprehends the father, and thus gives birth to himself, and turns his father into a step-father, a missing father, a surrogate, a brother. A philosopher has no father.

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            Need is the All, Power the Hand of the All, and hand the Fire, that which eats the sacrifice, the great maker, the Aye of Eye of I.

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            Yahweh is an Ass. Saturn is the star of the Ass, who stands for will and stubborness, as the name Iao also means “ass.” Saviors such as Dionysus and Jesus make their procession on an ass.

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Husband of the Holy Spirit is called Zeus by the Greeks: he doubles the spirit female, he is paraclete, which impregnates each people a new religion. Ghost is the schizophrenic spirit which in Babel fragmented into the different factions of man. As the Babylonians had it, Enki busted up the Spirit into a thousand flaming tongues, called Legion of Babble.

Zeus is Ieus when the Z becomes the I it originally was. This is always the younger generation gaining control. “I” and “Z” are not merely the hand that throws, but the bolt let fly

Elohim are men speaking paraclete, creating by language. In this, the spirit always existed, but became paraclete, or invoked, when man first spoke. Spirit is the dimension of matter that experiences, and the holy spirit is the language, or symbol, which that experience takes. The thoughts of mother are deeper and older than the holy spirit, than the word of man.

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            Uranos the sky is born from the earth and husbands her, till El Kronos of the seventh day castrates him.

Matria pulls little Yahweh by the ear for being such a devilish prankster on his people, and so she feeds him to hell, but he isn’t the poorer for it. She slaps Shiva for talking back. She feckles her freckles, the little incarnations of Buddha, Jesus, Cain, Socrates, Nietzsche, who injected the race with a blasphemy against the spirit, which is in other words, a new word. Damn is the Dam, the Grand Dame, Matria. To damn another is to expect him to finish his growth in her womb, hell—and Hel is the Tao woman, beauty and death, Shivat God eater, Satan lover great.

Enki, the Jah, Magician-King, lord of heart-water, semen, irrigated the fields, where his semen was stolen by Ishtar, who impregnated herself, brought forth a daughter, whom Enki impregnated in turn, and her daughter in turn. He also fertilized the earth and Isthar brough forth the trees of knowledge. He ate and learned and was impregnated by his own semen. Lacking a womb for himself, Ishtar took the children from him and brought them forth, except for Ninti, Eve, Mother rib of Life. And she represents the breaking of the phallus out of the vaginal heart, as in Uranos seperated from earth, and bleeding like menses into a menses Sea, born at last Aphrodite.

            Cronus is the Baal bull born of heaven and earth, the roaring bell of the bull, “El” meaning highborn, crowned with horns, the horns a scythe, to cut the air of heaven.

            Yahweh could never be an El, as indeed Zeus could never be a Saturn. They are bursts of fury, whereas El and Saturn were a more sustained forboding.

Kronos the crow God

A scythe as beak for the elder

the teeth of time for his children

black as raven

a Judge in jersey

who dares the word

Nevermore

 

Who are his graduates

In four pointed hats of black?

The Elite.

And the world wears

the double scythe of his beak

The hands of the idol chronos

on walls and wrist.

            Saturn, as son of earth and heaven, and as castrator of heaven, the eternal, is mortality, death, harvest, father time. Shakespeare writes constantly against him, and in fact every poem yet invented is an emissary against time.

            Not for nothing was I named “Judge of God”! I side with Wotan, I side with Hermes, I am wary of stagnant will.

            Cronus as bull, or the lusty sun, is yet numbered as 7, and given the six pointed “star of david,” which when rearranged is the standard hour glass.

            Therefore, our Will is ever at war with itself: Father and Son, El versus Yahweh, Cronos versus Zeus. The generational gap. It seems the Germans alone lacked this tension, where instead we have the tension between friends – Wotan and his blood brother Loki. As the spirit of gravity, Satan unites father and son, father and daughter, specifically, as in the person of the baptist, to “unite father and son” after which Jesus “Divides son from father” yet again.

            YHWH as tetragrammaton is akin to the 4 beasts of the vision: man, ox, eagle, and lion.

            Adam is Enki is Elohim is El, Saturn, the son of heaven and earth, first man, called first-thought, fore-thought, Prometheus, who steals fire from his father heaven. And again Adam is Atum is the spirit born of the sea, first and greatest of all Gods. Its ubiquitous, we all know the story. We call the first Atum, or El, and we call his son Ra, son, Yahweh, Zeus, a hundred other names. All these together I mean by “Father,” “Iao,” and “Ra-El”; we will call him REAL, and the only thing real is realiziation, the conscious I, the acting Will. And so we call him Real, bride of Care. Reality- real; Care – crea; basic motifs: you are made out of them. Sovf is the sum of your habits, your wisdom, and Wotan is the awareness of you mind, your will. As El he harvests and breaks apart, father time, maker of the week; as Ra he combines again.

            Wotan is the week, strength of days: Wednesday is the center, Tyr and Thurs twins at his side, Moon and Frigg beskirt, and Sunday Saturday the lengths of him.

 

 

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first notes on courage

 

Courage

            Courage is the essence of virtue, the core of the heart, the man of the mind. Courage, sticking-it-out, persistence, doggedness, all these come down to the same, the one indispensible virtue; with courage we have a man, without it, a worm. Cowardliness is the source of every human corruption, of every vice, wanton cruelty, and crippling sin. Both courage and cowardliness are versions of fear: either you master and use it, or it masters and uses you.
            The problem of the afterlife, good or bad,  is not lack of proof that one exists, but that most men and women look proof they are worthy of an afterlife, good or bad – being so dull and uninteresting. The self is as the self does: if you shine like the sun, the universe will strive to hold you near, but if you are merely a mooner to some distant light, as most men and women are, then the best afterlife for you is the one you will receive, melded together into a larger group body – perhaps all of you together will amount to a man, perhaps not.

            Worrying whether there is an afterlife is stupid. Being powerful, evil, great, genius, passionate, loving, and glorious now on earth, so that you are worthy of the best afterlife—only such a concern would profit you whatever awaits you.

            Man glorious is moody, capricious, gentle, violent, loving, wrathful, the woodcraft of Wotan – wise and furious, laughing and dangerous. Such a one laughs before forms and functions, and the whole machine of society, which the little one by inheritance, religion, or social function claim a distinction for itself – the thing has no gender of its own, sexuality is a rare distinction –that cog of the social gear  – perhaps in the afterlife it will be a cell of a body worthy of existence. We get what we deserve, and those who are grateful for gifts undeserved nevertheless get what they really deserve.

            I am ever Hermes among the people, Wotan in my hat, I play tricks with words and names to wrangle some chuckles, and meanwhile pierce with my eyes their very souls. Sometimes I catch a glimmer of mind, a spark of will—let me find one I can love!—and here I pour the fuel, I pile dynamite and gasoline upon him and prod him to spark again. I seek men and women to admire.

 

 

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Touched up version of the TAUTOLOGICAL CREDO

The two complementary virtues I am studying are Interpretation and Courage, and I have passed onto courage now, to integrate interpretations into a new bold way. I am therefore reworking some old writings in order to bring them to date on the World Goal I have set, and am faced again with the seed of the Tautological Credo, which began it.

 

I drafted this in during a highly anxious hour – it bled from my fingertips. I have since shined and perfected it, but I feel it may yet be a long time before I am fully satisified with it.

 

The Credo is an early attempt at Glossolalia, as I interpret it, a passionate fury through language into the stucturation of will itself, the passing of the seed of Wotan into the matrix of Sophia. That is to say, the moment is a moment of conception.

 

dAniel

 

The Tautological Credo

 

The studious Daniel June to the Students of life:

 

Greetings avatars of vitality, you students in life and for! In order that our mind may flood his dendrites further, that our heart may throw her arteries farther, that our hands may grasp their fingers wider, in order that our creativity may pronounce herself louder, expand her glance best, we gather ourselves from the world into the hand of a community, and teach each other in turn, sharing art and affection. We encourage each from his unique light, to each his unique eye, arming each with hammer and spike to create the universe. We gather to supplament the Universities, we gather to continue our growth in mind and spirit forever forward. As group, we acknowledge these ideas as our starting point:

 

WE recognize these tautologies as axioms: Firstly, Life Lives. Vivoce. Secondly, Mind Minds. Vivoce. Thirdly, Matter Matters. Vivoce. All truth descends from a full understanding of these irrefutable, undeniable, and absolutely valid basic Truths.

 

We utilize these methods for investigation; Firstly, Science is the only way to explore philosophical truths, namely, by the recognition of a problem, the hypothetical creation of formulas to solve this problem, the testing of their implications in the practice of our life and thought, and the refeeding and reforming of them back again. Vivoce. Secondly, Tautology is the only way to speak, being the equaling of two sides of a verbal equation, a preposition, the roots of every teaching. All thinking identifies identicles between disparate beings, and creates identities through ordered focus, and so is tautological. Vivoce. Thirdly,The testing of all contradictions based on the premise that there are no contradictions, only Unidictions. Our paradoxy is unidoxy, the unidox of all belief. Any contradiction we discover in a text merely shows we have not understood deeply enough. All reality is unified in agreement. Disagreement is seem. Where we see contradictions, we see symptoms. Vivoce.

 

We hold these truths to be self evident; Firstly, Life is worth living. Vivoce. For life is fulfilled, either with inspiration to seek joy, called pain, or with the joy itself. Life alive, enlivened by the life of its body's living members fulfills itself through liveliness, seeking objects and objectives that we need. Life as needing is a fulfilling, life as joyous is a fulfillment. Secondly, As fulfilled life, man is by nature always utterly logical. Vivoce. Every man on earth is absolutely logical in his every act and his every decision. There is no nonlogic. Whatever is mind, minds according to logical progressions, more or less effective as they correspond to need and world. Thirdly, All life can become perfect in a way that no other life is. Vivoce. Survival of the fittest, and we are all fittest in our own way.

 

We believe these tautologs and the web-thinking they represent: Firstly, Matter is the Mater which in her maternal corpus of creativity, became the materials for all that exists, existing in and standing out from the dimensions of material-time, material-extension, and material-experience, for she is matrix of all existing; she gave birth to a second mater, mother nature, who is the nativity of all that lives, from protozoa to world-nation, for every people is the nascent and nation of one long conversation of life. Secondly, The Universe is the great One-Turning, the constant overturn of old, and return to a greater beginning, a long conversation of which each life-version lives his own verse, coming and becoming to its greatest worth in vertical growth, converting all around it to itself, inverting the old, reversing the bad, overturning the perverse, and reconverting at last back into the universe, for we see the tropes and turns of entropy, but also know the intropy of creativity must balance these, that creation must grow the beginnings and repetitions, troping, turning, and coming for all time. Thirdly, This is a life of the technician, for we each act according to our technique, communicating our text to our immediate context, which is but the texture of the overtext, the stringed universe, made from textile, weaved from the body of the whole. Man fuels this inspiration of creativity through his soul, or psyche, the spirit and inspiration of wind, breath, the spoken word, the logos. Fourthly, Logos is the speech, and the legal reading therefrom, from legend to dialogue, the logical and creative language of the legions, gathering and selecting the symbols that best logo the experience of life, each nation its lexicon, each people ts legal system; each a legere reading of the intellect and intelligence he represents, and taking all else as lesson for his election.

 

We consider these definitions to be primary; Firstly, Man is the ratiocreative life-form. Vivoce. Man is the mental, the manic, the mindful, the rememberer, the muse-inspired, the musical. Secondly, Life is productive and reproductive organized energy. Vivoce. Life lives according to the liveliness of its living parts: head, lips, heart, and hands. These seek outlet in expressions,  speaking out, depressions, holding down, repression, holding back, and pressure, the anxiety to communicate, thus impressing our image into the world, impressing ourselves by our own accomplishments. Thirdly, every life is not sufficient in its immediate self, but sufficient in its Full Self, which exists in the hierarchy: Body. Possessions. Family. Friends. Community. Society. Humanity. Nature. Vivoce.

 

SELF

We believe these credos to be absolutely true without qualification. We believe man is man's greatest object, the highest of all existing, creator of self and environment. We believe that self must  be selfish, self-centered, and so, self-actualized, giving his whole self to fulfilling through himself and others. We believe families are familliars who by fame of spirit blood are founded on the female. We believe friends and friendly behavior expand the self, showing willful selection of what is friend to his principles, to whom he speaks on friendly terms, sharing their best as friends. We believe community should live in communism as communes, meaning regular meetings and the voluntary care of each in the community, communicating the best that is within them, giving as commerce their art and greatness, guided overall by elected committees. We believe society is social according to the principles of socialization, living by socialism, which is the structure of society that allows but does not obligate benefiting and participating in all aspects of society, thus fulfilling our social natures, the full principle of socialism being little more than directed focus of society to achieve mutually agreed goals. We believe humanity ought to be humane in its treatment of humankind, humble before the universe, humorous in the face of fear, and full of hubris to its highest goals, living out the humanist principles of the highest importance being the human individual first, and the society he lives within second. We believe nature is natural even in every choice of man, that his nature is logical, that every man has the potential to perfect and to excel his human nature by his own will. We believe creation is created according to the universal principles of creativity in matter, just as man consciously creates and thus fulfills his full creature.

 

MIND

We believe in the omniscience of man. Omniscience is knowing all you need to know. Knowing how to question is a form of omniscience. Man is life into truth, called knowledge, and is truth into life, called wisdom. The constant optim of flow is called perfection. Acheivement is learning from every success or failure. The pride of acheivement is called God. Every man is utterly logical. Every little contradiction is a greater unidiction. Man is utterlogic. This is known to the readers only.

 

GREATNESS

We believe every man naturally aspires to greatness. Greatness is not only in influence, but may exist unknown and isolated, so long as the expression is grand. The steps to greatness are amateur, hobbyist, expert, master, wizard, God, Man. Perfection perfects. Therefore if a man elects perfection, he will continually grow in all things—kindness, family fulfillment, music, writing, work, physical fitness—through his craving for excellence.

 

LANGUAGE

We believe in the inherent meanings in the world project of the major languages, that the connections and recognitions inherent in definition and expression give us a full feel and place in our community and world at large. We believe literature is the highest expression of this language, which is the real breath of man. We believe the written word is most worthy of study. And when you translate this, drop all English and adapt it fully to the language I am courting.

 

COMMUNITY

We believe every man instinctively seeks a commune based on the person he is and has chosen to be. We believe this search is often unconscious, as when a man commits a violent crime in order to join a prison. We believe asylums and prisons are not punishments, but rewards, being the best communal place for such personalities. We believe the stigma surrounding these establishments is merely initiation costs. We believe that every commune works to become self-dependent, progressing through the stages of parasite of the world to slave of the world to copartner with the world, as a child grows from fetus, to obedient child, to productive citizen.

 

WARFARE

We believe that competition and cruelty is as human and necessary as cooperation and kindness. We believe that competition compels us to accomplish our best. We believe the nations ought to compete in such forms as the Olympics and other competitive sports for the sake of the pleasure of the spectators and countries. We believe men are voyeuristic to all greatness, and love to see the voyeurism of others on their own greatness.

 

GOVERNMENT

We believe politicians make policy according to researched polls in a representative government, advised again by their own personal policy and principle, a policy which is politely protected by the police, and the policing managers which it enact, for the strength and stability of the polis.

 

WORK

We believe man ought to work as little as necessary when his leisure contains his value, and as much as reasonable when the work itself is his value. We believe capital represents all that is good in man, that money symbolizes both the goods it can buy, and also the goodness in man that produced them. Affirming capital, we also affirm capitalism at the most individual and the most global level.

 

US

We are the cult of our culture, acculturating the world through our effort. We gather to share our creations, and to study. We may study from our own personally chosen scripture, be it New Testament, or Dhammapada, or Emerson's Essays, Darwin's Descent of Man and the work of his later disciples, Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zaruthustra, or whatever else. We enrich the theme with our own interpretations.

 

CONCLUSION

We hold these optimisms to direct all our self appraisals: For every problem I face, there exists a best solution I am capable of producing. This is sufficient. I can be the best I can be: nothing more could be asked of me. During any time in my life, there is a happiest I can be. No other aim is fair. No matter what situation I find myself in, I have a best I can do. This is perfection, and I fully pride myself in it. I am practical in every panic. We pledge to be utterly selfish to our full Self: each to each and then each to his other.

 

 

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Christopher and the Siren

Another part of my series of myths

 

D

Christopher held a blade of light, searching the fogs, dancing over the waves with his winged sandals. He had followed the song of the siren through the winds, caught them and with his careful ear flitted through their labyrinth until he had spied the siren. She was only one siren, a pillar from the water, but beneath her coiled  a mile of dragon. Her song was not enough for what he intended, because he intended the one at the bottom of the sea, beneath the dragon, but the dragon coiled in the waves and was thick as a brain.

He skirted over the waters, and saw that once in a while, a coil of serpant would breach the surface, but randomly. He got nowhere near the siren, who would like to grab him in her arms in love and drown him in her painful ecstasy.

But the coils were not random, and soon he had figured their pattern. When the next coil rose, he threw out his blade, which bent forth far as a stone throw and sliced the coil in two.

The sirens song shrieked high, but never ceased being music. And where the coil was cut, a new siren grew out of the tail and now there was two sirens singing, and the severed tail of the first siren sank down deep.

In such a manner, he had cut out coils and coils till ten sirens sang in seductive harmony.

Their song overlapped into a wind, and he quickly flew into the wind and breathed it in. It was the breath of life, pure self generating oxygen.

Having gained the breath he could now dive without loss of focus, and yet he remembered to dodge away from the embraces of the tens sirens. Their words were as tempting as a crucifix, but he would not submit.

He dove amidst them; his sword hissed away to the hilt, and he tucked it into his belt. He followed the ten tails down, down, down, swimming exhaustively yet never short of breath, amidst the tails which intersected like lines of a web, or a great net, and at the very bottom was the Spider woman herself, the great jaws of the guardian of the deep, whose mouth held the tail of the serpant siren.

He let himself fall into her arms, and she bit upon his foot, and hand, till he kissed her and pressed a breath of life into her.

Started to receive what she had not intended to receive, she trembled. The ocean floor dodged and shook and gamboled, as her great roots split a little, and a crack opened up on the face of the depths, and a fresh light as bright as the sun broke out and spiraled up into the sky

This is why he had come.

He broke away and rode the beam of light up, and burst out of the ocean. He caught a gleam of the light and rekindled his wand, pen, sword, where it had fizzled to the hilt, a stronger light, a greater power.

 

 

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