/lit/ - Literature

>Hindus, Buddhists, Janaists, Sikhs, talk about moksha; the attainment of enlightenment and freeing oneself from the cycle of reincarnation to join in the universality of the Godhead

>Gnostics talk about a malevolent creator entrapping our divine souls on this material realm, with something similar to moksha being the ultimate goal, with Christ as a kind of superhero leading humans back to the light

>Modern schizos talk about astral travelling and witnessing a vast machine on Saturn which harvests our souls, put in place there after the "good guys" lost a vast interstellar war in which Earth was offered as a sacrifice, and where our souls are tricked by malevolent beings to continously go through the cycle

Were they all on to something?

>>16093895
I haven't even attempted to parse this stuff beyond memes like pic related. Where would I start in earnest?

Keep on Keepin on

>>15453236
Then there are the Amaltheans (Christ-Lemuria) who preach there is a condition of infinite energy outside the light cone of the CTMU, that Langan's unbound telesis is inhabited by “beings” called Ulteriors (which the gnostics know as aeons) who will grant us entry into their paradise when the Eschaton Engine is used /in reverse/: to bend the curvature of space negatively, into a saddle/potato chip, UNFOLDING the “black hole in which we live” and its constitutive dialectic into the Ain/Alpha Random: tzimtzum unspooled: the Amaltheans represent the cosmic voids, the Malthusians the great galactic filaments and their attractors: the war between them evocatively referred to as a game of “topological chess”, played between concavity and convexity, point and circumference: but if xenofeminism is the dilation of the glans into the “outside” of transgression, isn't it properly Lemurian like it claims? No, because Wright's whole point (and Schelling's, and Plato's...) is that the Outside is extropic, paradaisal, not demonic-lovecraftian: only a modern could think geotrauma/the Black Sun, or rather, only the modern could repress the pagan economy of expenditure and sacrifice until it BECAME geotrauma: again, the pagan love of life and the body is based on an /extropic/ antinatalism: the human condition can be perpetuated indefinitely so long as we restrict our gradient of energy expenditure to the capabilities of the body: instead of outsourcing our blood and sweat to machines: Christ being able to feed a whole crowd with just some bread and fish is the perfect illustration: in the presence of authentic spirit, the corporeal appetite falters, and is satisfied with less: as the Greeks were: as such, the moral struggle at the heart of Wright's novels is basically mathematical, probabilistic: whether to accept the overwhelming evidence that this self-lacerating void is All There Is, or take the Ulterior's promise of a transcendent condition that “makes good on” the incredible suffering that pervades a malthusian trap universe: it is a question of faith, of whether or not the Good (ontological health) is “eternally valid” in and of itself, or whether we must agree with the Malthusians and Heidegger that man's activity is always-everywhere the (self-)occlusion of the void of DEUS ABSCONDITUS: the Kali Yuga/Iron Age is successful only to the extent that it convinces us that our sickness, the pathology of our age, is dissimilar to all others: in this, it is a WETIKO: in this, technology is merely the latest “evidence” proposed: Atum is only the light centripetal, not the true light of the Circumpolar Heavens, beyond Nun and Actuality both: the Egyptians knew the Sun's true name was Yaldabaoth: in evolving eyes, it created (as Kant would have to admit) time and space itself: but even Shestov could agree with God that, on the dawn of that final day and after eons of labor, "it is Good."

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