An Advanced Being Rejects Ideology and Truth

Once, I was approached by a desperate man, waving a piece of paper. “This,” he proclaimed, “this is one!” I took the paper from him and ripped it in half. “One of what?” I asked. Unfortunately, his desperation did not last, for the man was no philosopher. Shortly, he went back to his world and spoke of ones and twos. Not long thereafter, I fled from the place, never to return. I knew I could not survive long in the company of my contemporaries. My great escape is yet to be concluded, and will end when I have them brought as corpses before my feet. You are recommended to feel desperation, or I’ll have you killed. The world must go on, and it cannot, as long as the inheritors of this error live.

Self-deception has many layers. Never trust someone who talks with absolute certainty in a matter. I accept nearly all possibilities, absolute truth, never. A simple mind thinks in black and white, where every logical possibility becomes a logical fact, depending on the needs of the subject. The greatest deception, however, is to speak of truth at all.

Let us begin with the beginning, and move billions of years back in time. An antediluvian, maybe froglike creature, opened its eye for the first time. And at that very moment, imagination was born, and shall only disappear when the last creature in the universe closes its eyes for the final time. Such it is stated by Schopenhauer. And as the creature and imagination increased in complexity, linear rules and regulations were made, then wider concepts, categories, and truth. It is the clever monkey fallen in love with its works and the products of it hand, such as a wooden figurine. Now the figurine – is law! Writing on a paper. Paragraphs and idiocy. Monkeys.

Understand this, even your highest truth and authority derives from the same imagination of the frog-like creature, and has the same validity. All imagination is a byproduct of reality, and is not reality in itself. Underlying reality came first, and only very late came imagination. None of your senses, or logic, any dream or perception, has a direct access to reality. As a gaze exists at a surface level, all other faculty carry a limitation of their own. This has grave implications indeed. The words of a sage and a fool has the same validity. If we in unison were to be asked a thousand questions about the word in general, in a quiz-like test, and you got all of them right, and I got all of them wrong, it might be an indication that I am more right about reality than you are. All your correct answers should point to that very fact, because all you have done is to refer back to an imagination someone else has had, often not even on your behalf, and you have inherited the error. Clever within the dream or a self-referring point, nothing else. What you call wisdom, is not. By the way, you should never accept the premises someone else set fourth. This is the first step to a slavery of the mind. It’s the fencing in of your brain by the use of language. Often done by abject tyrants and accepted by the weak. First, they come for your mind, then your body, until you’re worse off than a circus animal. Welcome to modernity.

With this, I reveal myself to be a nihilist, an often-misunderstood term, and misunderstood it will be, even here. Furthermore, I’m an absurdist, because nothing here makes much sense. Lastly, I’m a follower of Dionysos, and have accepted my doom. The world has no inherent meaning. We have felt the coldness of space. This I know: One of the worst things you could do is to call something an authority, and then referring back to that authority when dealing with any and all situation. Only someone with an extreme need for safety would do something like that, and the result is, as always, danger and an amputation of the self. The oft-occurring paradox reveals the dual nature of the universe. As Machiavelli states, every situation is unique, and deserves its own unique deliberation. Mere theory and thesis, all well-meaning guidelines are slow and rigid, and not at all can they keep pace with events, but this is, unfortunately, the smallest of their evils. Because soon the laws and regulations become the entirety of the world you move in, and a prison for your mind. Images! Words! Words!

Don’t bring your guns to town was a reasonable guideline, because with guns, people would be more inclined to do violence against you. It worked … it worked. But notice the past tense. It worked. It doesn’t necessarily work now. At certain points, it makes sense to bring your guns to town. Even proverbs and parental correction carries this duplicity. I command you to be present in the world, and do your own evaluation. Don’t depend on another’s evaluation, who is not you, and could never be in your circumstance and situation. But in all of humanity, this will and desire to submit to words and phrases reoccur. It is the need for safety and illusion, the frog reacting to light and shadow, with no understanding of what light and shadow are, or what their originators might be. Instead, they invented God from some fragments of what is not understood. God is the most baseless thing of all, and is therefore seen as important.

Our fight is against old mistakes, and our parents. Humanity stepped wrong at one point, you see, and this mistake has yet to be corrected. This happened with the cursed Zoroaster, who first devised of good and evil as separated units and in dualistic terms. Good and evil, a perversion and an amputation. Then it’s not long before you can speak of truth, and equate it with the good. From truth stems morality, law, Plato, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, tyranny and psychosis. I’m good! I’m good! says the madman at the madhouse. They all say that, even esteemed men, and that is the problem. They are outdated, and must die. Antiquity must die, and the problem is that antiquity is not yet dead.

As Machiavelli rightly pointed out, ancient pagans, before Zoroaster, Plato and Jesus, knew better. As someone else said: The pagan world was great because they knew nothing of Christianity and the plague. In the Greek myths, great men, such as Asclepius, Achilles, and Hercules, had the centaur Chiron as a teacher. Why? Being a centaur, half man, half beast, he could best teach them to accept the beastly nature in themselves. https://www.obtaineudaimonia.com/be-both-man-beast-prince-niccolo-machiavelli

Bear in mind that Chiron was above all, a healer. To be a good healer, you must know of the parts of inner nature that make up a man. This includes some things the virtuous, the good and the just, always will shirk from, which they must prevent themselves from seeing, in order to have their illusion – of what? The illusion of the apollonian and the self. You are just a representative of the species, and you will destroy yourself to better serve the species. You’re doing it now, in fact. To split the world in two, between good and evil, will per extension divide you, in a war against yourself. And what is suppressed will only come back in an uglier form.

Enter the flattest of the flat-headed flat, the idealogue. First, I have been bothered by the political left, in endless persecutions for having a thought-life, and lately I have been bothered by the political right, by way of meek implication because of being a generally exciting (and excitable) person. I have never signed a contract I will accept any of this, and because of the insult, they should all be tossed before my feet. Flat, I say, and I will stomp them further flat. Because both parties are characterized by their allegiance and clinging to a self-referring script, which they apply to any part of the world. This logocentrism, this dependence on language in order to understand, makes for a brutally simple creature, one that lives in safety within the confines of narrow light.

Interestingly, the left use their particulate script to be manipulating and aggressive. They claim to have principles, but will drop them whenever convenient. This proves what their ideology is to them – it is only a tool and a weapon, the only weapon the herd animal can use. Center lining is what characterizes the sheep. The sheep always tries to be as much in the center of the herd as possible, for there it is safest from predators. The herd is their weapon, nothing else, to trample their enemies. Themselves they cannot depend upon, as they know they are weak. Signaling ideological allegiance is therefore of outmost importance, and hoping ideology can destroy one’s enemies. Maliciousness borne of weakness, that is the political left, and their particular pathology can be called covert narcissism. Their “virtue” is fighting against reality in one and all. They want everyone to be as weak and sick as them.

I must admit I used to take people on the political right serious at one point in my life. Someone more harmless you’ll have to search long after. The political right are entirely defensive with their particular script, but will at least be principled with it. As long as they can have the script, they are seemingly pleased with everything, including their own crucifixion. They will merely grumble a little, and move on to the next humiliation. All bark and no bite, you see. They have done as their morality has commanded them to, and moved out of this world. Some condemnations is all you’ll hear. No need to take them seriously. They are conformist in the truest sense, and actually believe in whatever grouping they belong to. What can you call a moralist? Probably resigned, or liken it to a neurotic old woman.

The most potent and toxic mix is probably when the left and right comes together, for instance in nationalistic bolshevism, or in national socialism. There, the collective spirit of the right and the manipulative abilities of the left are combined, making the whole enterprise more successful, at least for the short time, although such conjunctions tend to collapse in the long term. Still, there’s talk of a script, and its pursued aggressively. It doesn’t take much to end up labeled as an enemy. All you have to do is introduce a little variation, and the whole ideological contraption collapses, especially psychologically. Their pathology is overt narcissism, and something more fragile, and consequently rigid in structure is hard to come by.

I am loathe to speak ill about my friends, but in the lack of enemies, I sometimes have to turn the slaughter-knife against them. Philosophy must have streaming and steaming blood in order to give off light, you see. Who can fight against the modern flatness of the soul? Surely, the pagans? Not so. Almost all modern pagans are Platonists. In their disappointment with Christianity, they fled from that religion and came to an earlier stage, which was the decadent stage right before the conversion. A modern pagan might as well be Christian, is a failed Christian, and competes with the Christians in being Platonic. Understand this, Greek paganism existed for 1500 years, and naturally, changed character over time. Plato came at a very late and decadent stage. The religion had its heyday with the Dionysian cult and the tragedy. The former because the most potent life seeks the greatest challenge, according to Nietzsche. The first because a truly strong creature accepts the nature of existence, and create their own meaning, according to the same man.

I will mention two episodes. Firstly, I came across this:

Everything here is wrong. Odin was not a virtuous god. He lied to his enemies, random people and even his helpers and allies. He doesn’t really care about the helpless and weak. And he sometimes even kills great people. All we see in the statement is pure Platonism, which had nothing to do with Norse paganism. In order to understand ancient culture, I strongly recommend the book “Orality and Literacy” by Walter Ong. There it is explained how and why oral cultures didn’t operate with abstract categories – a mistake in either case. The Nine Noble Virtues of modern paganism is likewise mistaken. It would be more accurate to call modern paganism New Age, or reformed or regressed Christianity. If you want kindness, look more to the Devas or Vanir, not to the Aesir. And that kindness probably requires conformity/community/the communal.

Every factor, principle, ability or character contains its shadowy side. The ancient pagans knew this.

I have to mention this instance, because it is so striking. A modern pagan viewed a clip of some orthodox priests parading the remains of their saints, using them as relics. This included, I think, both skulls and fingers. The modern pagan was very provoked by this, and stated that pagans would never treat their ancestors with such disrespect. Firstly, there is no disrespect. And when looking at the most pagan forms of Christianity, he was off-put. It is as I say, the pagans now compete with the Christians in being the most abstract and high minded. With that, you might as well move to boring Protestantism, which is a purer form of Christianity, with its lack of ornamentation and pomp. You could even move to Islam, the purest form of monotheism. A cult of skulls was deeply ingrained in certain pagan cultures. The ancient Celts revered the human head above all, and kept the skulls of their ancestors and enemies alike around the house. Heimdall himself is said to have lost his head, but the circumstance is lost to us. And a Völva was found in the Oseberg ship with a severed dogs head in a bowl. What for is unknown. So, at a display of paganism, the pagan is offended. Could anything point to Memento mori more the parading of human skulls? Plato still rules, however much variation in creed is introduced. Only sweet Dionysos can save us.

It is not for all of you to understand this. It is good to have curiosity, but I fear that by listening to too many voices, one will lack direction, and not take the truest, I’m sorry, the strongest path. For you I ask you to speak with not so much certainty. My master chose well with me. I had the capacity to understand Nietzsche. Few others do. I have even refused to be the teacher of two other men, one of them even requested my tutelage violently, and so my rebuff had to be violent, simply because I understood they did not have the capacity for the highest knowledge. Being twice-born requires both broadness and depth, and a certain purity of the waters.

I will add this. A great life flies away from definition. Be not so eager to label yourself or others, and if you do, as a form of play, by all means, don’t take those definitions with outmost seriousness. It is, after all, just the testimony of a frog that opened its eye and imagined things. This is also why I do things, and then I do something else, not to be understood by primitive ideologues or a rudimentary intelligence. An execution? Fawning at the feet of some youngster? I’m all for it. As such, I take up the aspect of the pagan gods. I never signed a contract I should care for your criteria and feelings as I fly here in my balloon.

Nine Heavens, Three of Them Named