Ancestral greatness is, like all subjects, deceptively simple. The man with a great parentage, nay great grandparentage, must fly from misconceptions regarding his gifts in every new actuality of his. (Thus how could he write “ALL subjects”, as if EVERY word from him should not warrant emphasis? A high period after every blocklettered word–when was that tradition left behind? Yes, let us write as if we’re just writing any old piece, proving by our well-versedness how virtuose we are. But what we are on about take right of way even before the subject.
ANCESTRAL GREATNESS–LET ME START AGAIN. ‘Die vornehme Natur ersetzt die göttliche Nature’, “noble nature replaces divine nature”–THIS MEANS, OVER AND ABOVE ANYTHING ELSE, THAT RELATIVE NATURE TAKES THE PLACE OF ABSOLUTE NATURE. THIS IS TO SAY, THE CREATION THAT WAS DONE IN A DIVINE FLASH, THE SIX DAYS OR SIX THOUSAND YEAR OLD WORLD IS REPLACED BY THE NINETY ZILLION YEARS AND COUNTING…
“Meet Kylie Springtime. Kylie is a petite girl with an enormous problem. She must bridge ninety zillion years in order to send a message to her beloved, the [nineteenth century] philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.”
‘If Nietzsche had one teaching, it was his teaching of eternal return. This was the notion that time be a circle, that all that happened had happened before and would happen again an endless amount of times. But this was precisely the teaching that Kylie found hardest to bear: Nietzsche would be born, live, and die again, then there would be ninety years of white noise, and then she herself would be born, live, and die again, followed by ninety zillion more years of white noise, after which Nietzsche would be born again… But wait, did that not give her an opportunity to communicate with him? Could she not speak to him across ninety zillion years, even as he spoke to her across ninety?’
MY PROJECTED CHILDREN’S BOOK CHARACTER–AND WHO TODAY IS NOT A CHILD?–IS ULTIMATELY MOTHER NATURE HERSELF, THE PHENOMENON THAT SCOURGES EVERYONE, EXCEPT THE CHRIST-BUDDHA’S PERHAPS, INTO CONTINUING COMPETITION. BUT BUDDHA, AND ACCORDING TO GRAVES KING JESUS TOO, WAS HIMSELF OF ROYAL PARENTAGE. ESOTERIC BUDDHISM IS REALLY OUTDOING ALL UNDER-ADEPT ZELATORES BY PERSUADING THEM OF ONE’S NOBILITY–CONVINCING THEM BY SWEET-TALKING AND -BEHAVING THEM. IT’S AN ACT–THE ACTIONS AND NON-ACTIONS OF WRITTEN AND UNWRITTEN LAW.
‘Suppose that, at first, there was only a herd, consisting of a single type. This type was surely a Sensing type, because iNtuition is a mark of a certain sophistication. Now the morality of custom demands that every herd member diligently honour the community’s customs. But there will naturally be a difference in diligence between members. Some will simply be lazier than others. The lazier ones will be more lax. These are Keirsey’s Artisans–in Jungian terms, Sensing-Perceiving (SP) types. They will be less exacting, more relaxed and open to distractions, loosening of mores. But Keirsey’s Guardians (in Jungian terms, Sensing-Judging (SJ) types) will be horrified of any breach of custom, certain that God will punish the whole community for it. So they start commanding the Artisans… Ordering them around, because they always need a kick in the behind. “Today is Tuesday and you haven’t put on your blue cap yet! Do so right now!” And the Artisans would reluctantly obey. I already said it years ago: the great commanders are the great obeyers. The first commanders, the Guardians (which is a perfect name for them, considering that their first special function was to be the custodians of custom), were in the beginning simply those who obeyed the customs best. Then, as the best obeyers of custom, they came to represent its demands. It was only later that the Idealists (iNtuitive-Feeling or NF types) made their appearance, not to mention the Rationals (iNtuitive-Thinking or NT types).’
TALENT, EVEN GENIUS, IS NOT A DEITY. A GREAT MIND’S EYE IS A GREAT WEIGHT. IT MUST BE BORNE EVERY WAKING HOUR. IT MUST BE SUFFERED–EVEN WHEN WHAT IS BORNE IS GREAT PLEASURE, THE CONTINUING PLEASURE OF HAVING ONE’S MIND EXERCISE ITSELF.
CLASSIC CONTEMPLATION. THE TEMPLE OF THE MIND. BUT PURITY, SANCTITY IS NOT ABSOLUTE. NOTHING AND THEREBY NOONE CAN SUBSIST ON NOTHING, AND THE MIND IS NOTHING MORE THAN HOW A CERTAIN HIGHLY SPECIFIC BODY AND SPECIES OF BODY EXPERIENCES ITSELF, FROM THE INSIDE. SO: BODILY DIET AND HYGIENE FIRST. BUT THE MIND IS ALSO NOTHING LESS. THEREFORE: SPIRITUAL DIET AND HYGIENE NEXT!
THE WORD “SPIRITUAL” HAS OF COURSE BEEN HIJACKED BY THE PSEUDO-INTELLECTUAL, BUT IT’S MORE ACCURATE THAN THE WORD “INTELLECTUAL”, WHICH HAS BEEN HIJACKED BY THE PSEUDO-SPIRITUAL.
SO-CALLED INTELLECTUALS MAY PRIDE THEMSELVES ON THEIR LISTENING TO SO-CALLED CLASSICAL MUSIC; BUT THAT IS PRECISELY WHERE MY CONTEMPT OF MODERN MUSIC STARTS.
SPIRITUAL DIET AND HYGIENE MEANS BEING HIGHLY PARTICULAR ABOUT WHAT ENTERS ONE’S MIND, AND THEREBY ESPECIALLY ONE’S SENSES.
ONCE A FRIEND OF MINE MADE ME A MIXED TAPE TITLED “Music for the Soul”. NOW THAT IS PRECISELY WHAT I ARGUE AGAINST. MY MUSIC, THE MUSIC I LISTEN TO, IS MUSIC FOR THE MIND. THE SOUL, THE HEART, SENTIMENTAL OR EMOTIONAL MUSIC MAKES OR KEEPS ONE SPIRITUALLY SMALL, ENTHUSIASTIC, IGNOBLE. SWEET SENTIMENT, NOSTALGIA, HOMESICKNESS–DANGEROUS. THE MIND SHALL NOT BE A HOMELY, ROMANTICISED, IDYLLIC PLACE. IT WILL BE VAST, A TEMPLE.