The title of this work, “The Eclipse”
integrated within “The Solar Warrior” is essentially inspired by the cosmic
fact that in the domain of civilizations, cultures and nature, whenever the
powers of light disappear, precisely the darkest and unknown forces start to
direct life forms, yet not necessarily the destiny of such life forms.
It was precisely the dismantling of the
Order of the Knights Templar by the King of France, Philippe IV The Fair during
the 14th century that would entail an act that would leave the West
in a progressive penumbra. This “penumbra”, shadow or darkness began to first
appear at the pinnacle level of the States and that of the Monarchies and Royal
families of the time, by corrupting the nobility and integrity of the
aristocracies, and thus little by little the penumbra spread thereafter its
shadow upon the emerging masses, with the epicentre of such decisive phenomena
being the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, in the year 1314, when the last Master
of the Templar Order, Jacques de Molay, was sacrificed in the bonfire due to
false accusations of heresy.
This fact, as described in “Origins, Rise
and Decline”, implied a crucial tipping point in the West, thus constituting
what would entail for some scholars the actual end of the Middle-Ages, and the
beginning of modern times. This event also propitiated the progressive emergence
of the SuperDragon within the human domain -described in more detail in the
previous book of “The Solar Warrior” trilogy-. Consequently men in the West
became viscerally exposed to such entity, only being thus capable of apparently
“exorcising” its menace by means of reductionist science, ideologies and
secular or monotheistic religions.
There can easily arise amidst this state of
things the question concerning the institutions or human groups that could
effectively take control of the new emerging situation. And it is here that
another key fact takes place in the modern history of the West with the
constitution of Speculative Masonry in London in 1717, that is, a group of
eminent men in the most diverse fields who temporarily managed to overcome the crisis
of mean-ing induced by the lack of
Solar principles at a State level by hypertrophying means, abstract ideas -the ideas of the Enlightenment- which all
implicitly assume a materialistic interpretation of existence applied
absolutely to all things. Thus, science, economics and politics began little by
little to surrender to the cult of brute matter, that is, to a cult towards the
most passive and inert forms of matter that are no longer linked to any
directing principle of a metaphysic, supernatural and Solar order. It is a this point when the imperialism of the masses
begins.
These aggressive and rationalistic ideas
diffused by Speculative Masonry -a modern political group called in “The
Eclipse” as “The Masters of the Dark Temple”- were thereafter propagated at all
social layers of the West, ideas still inevitably very present in our times.
And however, one of the teachings that Speculative Masonry discarded from the
most diverse and ancient structures of the Masons (the Rosicrucian, Francmasons
and Gothic Cathedral builders of the late Middle-Ages…) was the danger of
suggestion that propaganda could entail whenever the individual who is
subjected to such propaganda has not yet received an adequate formation. It is
precisely this dangerous incursion into the subjective and subconscious mind
that later stimulates even more the alienation of the individual and the
progressive gap between the specific actions of this individual, and what such
individual says, thinks or understands in regard to such actions.
It is precisely the noble warrior castes
who naturally comprehend that “actions speak louder than words”, yet in the 18th
century of the West this worldview was in practical terms already extinct,
favouring contrarily an exacerbated worship of reason, abstract concepts,
ideologies and idealisms, with all of the latter being also immersed in a
romanticist and economic vision of existence that progressively uncoupled from
the effective realm of action, and that of the meanings of such action. Even
though Speculative Masonry was neither aware of what they were accomplishing
nor their authentic goals, deep down the diffusion and propaganda of the
enlightenment ideas became very effective when catalysing the propagation of
the SuperDragon at all levels, first in the sense of promoting the distribution
of its blood: oil -called in the Middle-Ages as “acqua infernales” (the water
from hell) and secondly in the sense of allowing modern men progressively to
become more exposed to the extreme mobilization of action, actions which to a
great extent were passive and where men, not aware of the cause or “unmoved
mover” that directed their actions, could only ultimately also suffer in a
passive way.
In all of this, both capitalism and
communism proliferated during the 19th and 20th century
as two ideologies that only differ with regard to the means they employ, but
that however stretch their hands with regard to the aims. And what are actually
these aims? The constitution of an opulent society where superproduction and
the constant satisfaction of needs and desires atrophy in men the possibility
of questioning the direction and necessary combat
for the direction, which as we formerly said, can only be granted by Solar
principles politically legitimised in the Solar
Empire. But the Solar Empire idea
had already been cursed by the Church since the 15th century, and
then when later emerged ideologies such as capitalism or communism, there no
longer existed anywhere one single trace of the Solar Empire idea. And yet, this didn´t mean that finalities were
absent, but that actually the men of the West, blinded by false, abstract and
ideological visions of existence, were simply unable to perceive any direction.
And in essence the sense of human actions in the 19th century was
going in a very specific direction: the progressive constitution of the
Technocratic planetary State: the Techno-System.
Review of The Eclipse by Living Traditions Magazine
It is in this second part of “The Eclipse”
where there emerges the challenge of observing with new eyes the configuration
of power that intensively appeared in the 20th century called the Techno-System, which constitutes
-especially in our days- the entity that ultimately directs the destiny of the
entire humanity.
As a preliminary phase when shedding light
upon the superstructure and infrastructure of such power, as a previous
requirement it is indispensable to have an ideological purging of the individual who faces such task. To some extent, one
could say that at this point we are situated already in the equatorial line of
“The Solar Warrior” trilogy and that up to this point there has been described
to a large extent the fight of the monotheistic religious vision of existence
(the Christian “God”, for instance in the case of the West) in addition to the
diverse modern ideologies, in contraposition to the ancient and mysterious
sacred ideal of the Solar Empire. Up
to this stage of the trilogy are described the main genealogies of modern
ideologies and illusions, which all correspond to a great extent to the
ideology of happiness, the ideology of work, the ideology of science, and the
ideology of politics. To many readers I presume it might be very shocking to
read that modern happiness corresponds essentially to an ideology, yet in this
book is described in detail how happiness, work and science, whenever they
demand of the individual material conditions that foment passivity and the
“letting go” of such individual, they have to necessarily become ideological.
True happiness, contrarily, corresponds to a purely active form of happiness
and to a positive state of being of the individual who is willing to fight for
his own destiny, and this kind of happy activity can´t correspond to work,
conceived exclusively in economic or productive terms; this happy activity is
executed unconditionally, and has no attachment to pain, pleasure, nor the
consequences or rewards coming from such activity… To put it briefly, true
happiness is not a aim, but rather a condition of existence. Yet whenever the
individual expects a reward coming from his work, or a satisfaction of his
necessities and desires, this becomes the unequivocal sign that points to the
future need of work to eventually demand an ideology for its own justification.
This difference between the hedonist/well-being/comfort happiness of
ideological tinges and active happiness, is equivalent to the difference that
exists between modern reductionist science and the sacred sciences that still
existed in the Middle-Ages and the Gothic worldview. And even though the
following shall also sound very outrageous to many ears, also modern science is
highly ideological, since its intrinsic idea of objectivity independent of the
subject being studied, inevitably eliminates the truly active standpoint of the
individual who aims to know, who has no other option than become passive with
regard to the objects of knowledge and the construction of science. Thus, as a
working hypothesis actively chosen in this second part of the book “The
Eclipse”, it has been decided to discard the interference of any political
vision of existence, even though it shall be precisely in the third book of the
trilogy, “A New Hope” where the issue regarding the illusion and virtuality of
modern politics shall be deepened, by demonstrating its complete powerlessness
when trying to challenge the laws and developments of the Techno-System itself,
thus demonstrating the adequacy of employing this working hypothesis in this
second book of “The Solar Warrior” trilogy. This shall serve to point out that
the methods of modern science have no value on their own, unless one rigorously
asks what they aim for and which context they adapt to.
Hence, in the second part of “The Eclipse”
the description of the Techno-System shall begin, by resorting exclusively to
modern scientific paradigms. This part of the trilogy might correspond to the
most difficult sections for many readers, since the text shall deepen into
concepts of classical physics, thermodynamics, systems physics, etc. Yet
nevertheless, despite its unavoidable difficulty, the text of this second book
consists of the exposition of a radical materialistic view of existence that
has been purposefully chosen in order to take to the thresholds and to the
reduction to the absurd the idea itself of “solid” material, without having to
resort in any case to paradigms such as those of quantum mechanics.
It is in this equator of “The Solar
Warrior” trilogy where the phenomena of star formation and that of the Sun are
first capture by means of mechanistic paradigms, then ultimately deducing the
incapacity of such paradigms in “touching” the typical neguentropic phenomena
that takes place in the sun and life itself. It is at this specific point where
the reader might perceive between the lines how the Solar power outbursts from
the text itself of “The Eclipse”, aiming to become expressed in new forms, thus
facilitate in some men the possibility of, again in the 20th
century, defeating the mythical Titans and the igneous forces of the
SuperDragon by eminently Solar principles.
Yet before describing these very few men of
heroic virtues who emerged as shooting stars in the firmament of the 20th
century, it shall be first convenient to ascend from the purest metallic
rigidity of the Techno-System foundations towards the technical and
technological domain, thus introducing the reader into a new and revolutionary
concept: technicity. The concept of technicity brings forth from ancient
times the techné concept, and
contrasts its light nature to the darkness of the functional and cybernetic
forms of technique that began to proliferate in the 20th century,
which ultimately determined the structure of the most diverse sciences and
technologies. It is described as well the genesis of the internal combustion
engine as a fact of great meaning when demonstrating that within the technological
and industrial domain there can also take place autonomous processes that
imitate those of life, and with regard to which the Solar Warrior can establish
a link that recovers again the relation that already existed seven centuries
before between the Knight Templar and his Sword. These possibilities emerged as
very isolated cases during the 20th century, but as all shooting
stars, they left behind a trail of light that is indefinitely propagated… These
men, heroic paradigms of these new possibilities amidst modern societies, were
the New Zealander Burt Munro, the northamerican Chuck Yeager and the German
Ernst Jünger. The two first having lived fantastic experiences that were
portrayed in the cinema, and the third still awaiting a filming genius director
to project his life onto the big screen.
However, these men couldn't be seen as
shooting stars within the progressive darkness of the West, a darkness that
rather became more illuminated by the spotlights of the spectacle world and
that of entertainment. Actually in “The Eclipse” is described in depth how
around the years 1940-1950 the Techno-System became physically cybernetic
within the departments of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T) in
the U.S. promoting again the counterattack of functional technique at the
expense of technicity, and
consequently leaving men in the foreground when relating to the progressive
autonomy of a system that deeply extirpated their most intimate responsibility.
This necessarily impelled the counterattack of ideologies and the emergence of
the most diverse human compensations, with hyper-consumerism, show-business and
drugs becoming the most used forms during the decade of the 40s and 50s, just
after the cybernetic constitution of the Techno-System, converted the enormous
mass of men in the West and the East to a happy and servile slavery, tinged
with political pastimes and broadcasted sports.
And nevertheless, the light of the Solar Empire was still not completely
defeated, in a way similar to which a total eclipse always leaves tiny
apertures that announce that such darkness can´t last for ever… Thus, at the
end of “The Eclipse” there emerges again from the most remote depths and mists
of times a new form of conceiving combat and war, an imperial, noble and
warrior-like form of conceiving the human conflict at all levels. It shall be
ultimately the chaturanga, the
primordial game of chess, that shall defeat the cybernetic brain of the
Techno-System, not when facing it on the chessboard, but rather in the vital
breath of the eternal.
Buy “The Eclipse” in Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Solar-Warrior-Eclipse-Trilogy-Book-ebook/dp/B00R8Q0RTS/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
Where to buy in print: https://www.createspace.com/5238684
THE ECLIPSE
Book Contents
Part 1
The Masters
of the Dark Temple
The
diamonds become coal; and gold becomes black gold
The
brilliance of gold transmutes into the dark “Acqua infernales
The
mass-creation of the SuperState starts
Communism
and Capitalism. Two ideologies that serve the Techno-System
Part 1.
Endnotes
Part 2
The
Techno-System. Characteristics from a bird´s eye view.
The
Techno-System. The bird flight begins
Predictability
within chaos
The
attractor: balance in chaos
Part 2.
Endnotes
Part 3
The Sun.
The Center of the Universe
The miracle
of a star´s formation
The
interaction between the Sun and men
The issue
of language
The
recovery of the poetic vision of language
The
technical poiesis and techné praxis
Technique
as functionalism
The
machine. The cell of the Techno-System is born
Genesis of
the internal combustion engine
The first
attempts to ride the SuperDragon
The dream
of the heroic worker emerges
The nerves
of the Techno-System emerge
The
cybernetic vision
Pros and
cons of the cybernetic view of reality
Cybernetic
paradigm: Checkmate
Techno-System:
Definition
Part 3. Endnotes
No comments:
Post a Comment