fragments, 10/3/02

8:18 p.m.

Spirit, unlike flesh, gives birth to Spirit painlessly. The Spirit enters and leaves this plane with no pain. There is no difficulty in this generation.

But birth in the physical plane is always accompanied by pain. And the metaphysical metamorphosis from flesh squared to flesh multiplied by Spirit is psychically excruciating. It is psychic labor. One's body becomes the crucible, the medium, the plane through which the Spirit works its magick.

Only the flesh bears pain. The Spirit, ever resilient, transubstantial and immaterial, merely bears witness to the perception of pain.


8:42 p.m.

The power of man is the power to name.
The power to name is the power of negation.

I wrote these two sentences about five years ago--in a poem--well before I dove headfirst into metaphysics. But still I wonder at the truth these words may encapsulate.

power of man = power to name
power to name = power of negation
[thus] power of man = power of negation

Is this true? Geometrical rules may allow for this manipulation of language, but logic doesn't necessarily follow. Funny math can produce funky results.

The first statement I wholeheartedly believe. It's a truth I lifted from Genesis [of course]. The second is entirely made up by my errant mind, and it is with this statement that I find my trouble.

The power to name--to demarcate--is the power to differentiate. This leads to the power to compare and contrast. This, in turn, leads to our complex mental abilities. For our minds could not operate without a system of classification. We must make sense of the world; this seems, to me, to be the true human imperative. Only through the world can we make sense of ourselves.

fragments, 10/1/02

The ideal Church exists just as that--an Ideal. The only "true Christianity" that can exist is purely conceptual--it cannot be embodied on the temporal plane. Thus, the "true" Church is spiritual--reflected on the physical plane, but never literally established there.