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"What's that?" "It just seems to me that the wholesale horror and universal destruction such a basic Orientation consistently promotes, contributes to the tangible production of just those potentials perceived within Creation at the initial borderland of Cosmic Sleep that caused the Luciferian ‘light’ to recoil from the Divining Pool of the Dream—mind in the first place, and reject the Logoic proposition as anathema to begin with!" "That's quite true. Out of the initial profound fear of the Potential it perceives there, this 'inflection' of consciousness moves to allay that fear by summoning the worst elements of that Potential, driving them pell mell to the forefront where they can work their mischief the more rapidly and thoroughly so as to shorten the sum of 'suffering' It believes must otherwise take place on an indeterminately lengthy scale." "So it becomes, in effect, what it most loathes and fears! And on top of that, it serves as the efficient agent in actualizing what was only unrealized potential previously." "You could say it's the 'Colonel Kurtz' syndrome, on a cosmic scale. You know, the protagonist of "Apocalypse Now' whose sensibilities were such that he was profoundly shaken and appalled by the atrocities he discovered — the adversary capable of inflicting on his own kind, in order to forestall a greater defeat; so disturbed to his soul was he in fact, that a revolution of adaptive necessity was fomented in his being to the degree that a certain, fascinated admiration for the wisdom of negative reversals became his spiritual Advisor. His 'solution' to the irresolvable anguish—of—being, was to become all that which was most feared so as to constitute its efficient authorship and foundation; he proposed to be all that in existence which was aligned, threateningly, over—against him and, in so being (in this sense of spiritual paternity) he would in effect install himself as the Supreme Cause, work a subtle 'end—run' on existence whereby he would antecedently underwrite and therefore 'create' what etemally preceded him in fact as the guarantor of his created 1 wate 1 4 " "Exactly, in fact, the Creator finds that such a tendency—of-orientation arises as the ‘occupational hazard' of virtually every being’ and form of consciousness which initially springs from the Creation — but, that's another story, suffice to say that Lucifer serves as the prototype." The Sad Café of Soul." "Ah. Something has occurred to you out of all this..." "Uh huh. I'm beginning to feel...hasn't it ever seemed to you, Michael, as if maybe the 'creation', existence altogether, is a rigged game, a game that's fixed eternally against your favor?" "Yes, certainly. I know just what you're getting at." "You know, the superficial characterization of existence is that it's a process of interacting polarities; at first glance it seems to be an even 'tension' between constructive and destructive factors, the life—impulse and the death—impulse..." "Yes; and of course it seems that those Principals are forever coinvolved, mutually supportive, equally essential, almost like inextricably intertwined Lovers, the flower blooming beneath a life-giving sun and the grinning skull—apparition in the bonegarden of the dead." 195 T-Bird_Vs_The_Flying_saucers.htm vulnerability and contingency." "Sounds like Colonel Kurtz is son of the seminal philosopher of "You Create Your Own Reality!" "You know...I'm beginning to feel a little ill... think I might be feeling" — nervous laughter — "a little sickness "Eros and Thanatos, hmmm?"