Ave Zelinsky

Moritūrī tē salūtāmus-We who are about to die salute you

Berdyaev: It is impossible to set cognition in opposition to being. Cognition is an event within being. Cognition is immanent to being, and it is not that being is immanent to cognition. Cognition is not a mere mirrored reflection of being within the cognitive subject. Cognition bears a creative character and itself represents an act of positing meaning. The opposition of the cognitive subject to the object leads to an annihilating of being both of the subject, and also of the object. The cognition of the object of necessity transforms cognition into objectivisation. There exist various degrees of cognition and corresponding to them degrees of objectivisation. The more objectivised the cognition, the more remote it is from human existence, and is the more universally-binding. This logical universal-obligatoriness possesses a social nature. The logical universal-obligatoriness of objectivised cognition is connected with a lower degree of the spiritual community of people, based upon communication. The sphere of the physico-mathematical sciences can serve by way of an example. For the recognising of truth in the sphere of the mathematical or natural sciences the spiritual community of people is irrelevant. But this communalness has to be already the more noticeable, when the talk turns to the social sciences. Philosophic cognition cannot abstract itself off from human existence, for the positing of this or that truth there is necessary a spiritual in-commonness, since metaphysical cognition cannot be to such a degree universally-significative, as is mathematical cognition. And finally, truths of a religious order demand a maximum of spiritual in commonness between people. On the inside religious truths (the truths of religion) seem very subjective and very disputable, but for the religious communities, which believe in them, these truths are universal and indisputable. Penetration into the mystery of existence presupposes a creative intuition. Objectivised cognition corresponds to a breaking-apart, a disassociatedness of the world, i.e. to its fallenness. But within the limits of this world it has a positive significance.

Zelinsky has the head of Ukrainian Masonry running the show. https://www.pinchukfund.org/en/about_pinchuk/

Now I am not a Mason. I know no Masons. I have read a few titles on Masonry and Protestantism. Napoleon was hailed as Emperor of the Masons. Our first Technocrat. I know that Masonry is a road to political power snd money. The fascinating or frightening matter is the human minds engaged with the Craft.

What is say the Left hemisphere of Masonry? What is the Right? Can we group by language and location and time and members and follow the way out of the labyrinth of the Minotaur?

McGilchrist can in a sense give us moonlight brighter than the day since he explores the labyrinth unconcerned about his exit. And this too was the secret of Christianity. Death is merciless but Jesus is all mercy.

Masonry is an offshoot of the Abrahamic faiths.

An idol builder then offering children up to be burned in war after war.

In this landmark new book, Iain McGilchrist addresses some of the oldest and hardest questions humanity faces – ones that, however, have a practical urgency for all of us today. Who are we? What is the world? How can we understand consciousness, matter, space and time? Is the cosmos without purpose or value? Can we really neglect the sacred and divine?

In doing so, he argues that we have become enslaved to an account of things dominated by the brain’s left hemisphere, one that blinds us to an awe-inspiring reality that is all around us, had we but eyes to see it. He suggests that in order to understand ourselves and the world we need science and intuition, reason and imagination, not just one or two; that they are in any case far from being in conflict; and that the brain’s right hemisphere plays the most important part in each. And he shows us how to recognise the ‘signature’ of the left hemisphere in our thinking, so as to avoid making decisions that bring disaster in their wake.

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