Meditations

 

Some "meditations" and speculations. Should perhaps be taken with a grain of salt...

The idea that matter could and should be “redeemed” can become extremely dangerous, if secularized. Compare the Russian Cosmists, trans-humanists and other such crackpots. It can be dangerous even in a non-secularized form. I believe attempts to manipulate and change matter by non-secular means is called black magic! Why *should* humans “redeem matter” anyway? What´s it to us? Only God can “redeem matter” (perhaps through the Incarnation and Resurrection) and there are no indications that he even bothers. Has matter ever been redeemed anywhere in the universe, for 15 billion years and 100 billion light years across? So why should we believe it will be “redeemed” at some point in the future? No such redemption will ever happen. Destruction is more likely. Or an eternal universe in the throes of some cyclical “laws”. Compare Shiva´s dance! The universe is an eternal charnel ground. At best, it can be transformed into a…cremation ground. That is, a place of purification while we await another kind of destiny altogether.

Humans have limited vision, and evidently can´t know the highest truth – all religions are different (sometimes strikingly so), and so can only be subjective speculations and fleeting glimpses of another reality (the materialists don´t even see this). We don´t really know or see our future evolution, but we probably have to break free from this cyclical existence and ascend “higher”.

Mystics who experience Emptiness – what are they really seeing? Perhaps they really aren´t seeing anything at all! I suppose that would explain a thing or two. Mahayana (Zen in particular) is absurd: it sees “samsara” as “nirvana” (like seeing rape as love). An even worse form of copium is the idea that the world doesn´t even exist, as in Advaita Vedanta (or perhaps popularizations of same). ACIM seems to be a combination of both these notions: samsara is nirvana, and nothing´s real anyway (except ACIM´s copyright claims and, I suppose, royalties). Non-Dual “theistic” Realism (Kashmir Shaivism) is just a more refined version of the same copium, where you identify with the consciousness of an imperfect god who creates suffering and destruction. The wait for the apocalypse is hopium. The apocalypse will never happen (this is one of the few things we can be absolutely sure about).

The truth is that the created world is distorted by some kind of fall. It may not be “evil” in itself, but it´s distorted *by* evil. Where does this evil come from? That´s a good question. Nobody knows, but it´s not part of the plan – that would be absurd. In what sense is Auschwitz and Gulag “part of the plan”? The suffering is caused by the fall, probably the fall of the World-Soul from the real God. People then worship the World-Soul, thinking It is “God”. The real God is above this, forever perfect. Most monotheist religions might simply be worshipping the Demiurge. Or the Devil.

Nor is it true that evil is simply a “lack”, or that demons are extremely “disunited” by dint of their evil. No, evil is a substance and can unite itself. The Borg Collective is a good picture of Evil of this kind. It´s amazing how many religions underestimate evil or believe in an imperfect god – what´s the point of leaving atheism-materialism if you just get the same thing in a “god-guise” (or only get shit). Christianity has an explanation for this: humans are sinful and in denial of their sin.

Does Jesus save us from the cycle of karmic reincarnations, initiating us into a higher reality of monadic personhood, one that lasts forever? But if so, why all the errors in the Bible? Is it an “archetype” trying to get through to humanity, the archetype of Love and Compassion? The Sacrificed Man (and the Dying God) are also very old archetypes. In what other religions is this archetype trying to get through? Maybe Ahura Mazda in Zoroastrianism, the good lord locked in combat with the evil Ahriman. Maybe Krishna in Hinduism? Or Amitabha (Amida) in Buddhism? Of course, none of these sacrificed themselves.

Jesus sacrifices himself to cleanse humanity of negative karma. But is this really a historical event? And if so, why all the failed prophecies in the Bible (or the inability of the disciples to understand that the prophecies were really about a distant future)? If those things were wrong, how can we trust the other things in the Bible? How do we know that the death and resurrection of Jesus had a redemptive significance, if we can´t be sure about his Second Advent ever happening? Or the ridiculous contradictions in the material. If it´s an archetype coming through, there is an *enormous* amount of floatsam and jetsam to remove first, in order to find it! 

One day, the World-Soul will unite with God in the holy marriage (or re-marriage). This is not “God re-integrating himself” (a blasphemous and crazy notion – see Böhme, clearly a crackpot) but the fallen prodigal World-Soul returning to its abode and re-uniting with the true God, who never fell and has always been perfect.