The Gales of November

The Pneu~ma may blow whither it wants to, but the yuxh\ a)rxontikh/, the archontic soul, travels the road to a lake of poison, wherein it drowns and slowly decomposes but yields neither fertilizer nor petroleum nor ought else that is useful for the body’s survival or the soul’s ascent to Pneute.

So what is the archontic soul? It is the evil spirit which causes us to remain locked in the Kosmos in the worst way by causing us to pay more attention to political leaders who would lead us from our natural quest and desire to escape from our material incarceration. It tries to masquerade as the pneu~ma and direct out attention towards political leaders who would like us to think that there is nothing other than the  material world and that being subservient to them is the be all and end all of human existence. This leads to the worship of the state, the “new idol” as Zarathustra’s prophet called it, the death of peoples, the enslavement of the individual’s soul.

Keeping on course is tough right now. Even if one isn’t on social media—speaking of enslavement of the soul!—it is almost impossible to avoid the spiritual, and sometimes even physical, bloodletting that is currently happening. Our spiritual vision is obstructed by the storm clouds of bile and our well being poisoned by the disease of hate.

The archontic soul is the angel of our worst nature, to paraphrase Lincoln, and leads us away from what we should be striving towards, a tremendous drain of energy better used for our families and our spiritual efforts. Or, as one Nobel Laureate once put it:

                                 Don’t follow leaders
                                 Watch your parking meters.

Fr. Probolé

Tonight's Entertainment

The first installment of the Don and Hill---done in hell?---show is tonight.

I have no intention of watching.

(Not having a TV makes this easy.)

Neither do I intend to listen to it on the wireless.

Why should anyone want to get into the wallow with the hogs?

Administrivia--New Background

I've changed the background picture from the generic Blogger image to something new and different. Yes, it is a bit dreary, but is--perhaps--a bit more appropriate foer these times and mores.

For those interested in such things, it is a digital photograph of an oil on canvas run through a Lomographic filter.

Bosons of Light and Darkness

Its sure getting dark out there.

Seemingly everything which provides light is getting dimmer. That’s not literally true of things like the Sun and man-made lighting, but, in other ways, perhaps only in perception rather than in physical actuality, Darkness seems to be increasing.

There is no particle for Darkness as there is the photon for Light, since Darkness is defined as the absence of light, and not as an actual physical force or type of energy. There is nothing which actually radiates Darkness as a hot piece of metal radiates light and heat.

The Dualistic religions from the Middle East have, to one degree or another, provided a source of Darkness because they cannot accept the fact that, in a strict monotheistic theology, G-d is the source of both the Light and the Darkness, of both Good and Evil which befalls Humans. Human action—or inaction—may be cites as the cause of divine Evil, but it ultimately comes from G-d. Causality über alles, even if just “bad luck”, is a better explanation.

But the Darkness still exists, whatever its source, and it does seem to be “radiated” by means of some Humans who, acting as vectors, transmit the Darkness and its effects to other Humans and—sometimes—to the environment.

Its almost impossible to avoid the effects of the Darkness without becoming a hermit. The effects of the Darkness ripple through human society despite the best efforts of some people to neutralize or deflect them. It is a cascading effect, like a row of dominoes when the first one is knocked over, and the only way not to be one of the dominoes is not to be in line with the other dominoes.

On the analogy of photon, an unit of Light energy, from the Greek word for light phôs, phôtos, lets postulate a particle which transmits Darkness and call it a skoton, from skótos, the Greek word for Darkness. Skotons behave in a manner similar to photons, but cause an increase in the lack of Light, rather than an increase in Light. Thus, a skoton is an antiparticle of the photon.

The ebb and flow of Light and Darkness that one sees might not be an eternal battle of the Sons of Light and the Sons of Darkness, but rather something more like the alternation of day and night as the Earth rotates about its axis, something that occurs naturally as part of the functioning of the physical universe or Kosmos, and it is the human desire of order and continuity which makes the formulation of moral categories for external events inevitable.

Or, perhaps, not.