Seyyed Hossein Nasr on The Occult War
clearing the ground of the obstacles to Surrealist combat
In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known. (Pierre-Auguste Renoir)
Andre Breton suggested it was time for a detour through the essential. Surrealism was this detour. Surrealism became a rich field ultimately and necessarily beyond art. Tessel M. Bauduin writes “André Breton and other surrealists provided several definitions of Surrealism and the surreal throughout their career, and central to most of them is a concept of mind, or psyche, in combination with the notion that Surrealism acts through or in the mind.
For instance, Breton provided the following definition of Surrealism in his Manifesto: “‘ENCYCLOPEDIA. Philosophy. Surrealism’ is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of the dream, in the disinterested play of thought. It tends to ruin once and for all other psychic mechanisms and to substitute itself for them in solving all the principal problems of life.” So then what is daily life after all but an agreed upon collective mental state? Covid-19 demonstrated -though Ionesco had done so with his play Rhinoceros-just how easy psychic manipulation is and how monsters use it for control. Science is a tool, scientism an abnormality. In our ruined age scientism struts triumphant. Scientism is injecting mankind with biological weapons and trying to create a new man by creating a subdermal electronic prison.
In the interior world of man is where we find truth. The forcing upon us of our interior is highly symbolic in my opinion. If we take Covid 19 in it’s complexity literally we are thrust against our desires to be exterior creatures in a rush at all times busying ourselves for escape from our interior. The law demands our confinement for our own good. Our very life is at risk if we disobey. Stay home. Stay safe. Wear protective equipment and the risk decreases you will be next to fall sick from the invisible pathogen lurking in the air, on the sidewalk, in your neighbor who wears no mask.
Is this not remarkable as the external world of fiat wealth is abducted and the familiar consumer jungle simply vanishes like a mist in the late morning sun? Two wolds are now one. Our Nightmare and our Daydream! If we do emerge from our caves the old world is an abandoned movie set. No more can we sit in the cinema, dine in the restaurant, enjoy a beach or participate in sport for the law forbids this for our safety. The world objectified then is hostile and harsh no matter how beguiling. All the movies are coming to pass.
A conundrum as the world objectified is supposed to be what is real.
All community members in this real world are at risk. The police are helpless. The government can only punish. Markets in a dizzying dance no longer represent safety. No place is safe. A flushed toilet puts you at risk. And the death toll though far less than many maladies that strike us out of the blue still shows people die from what is called Covid-19. Death that has no mercy in this land is on all sides and even worse front line workers, heroes, medical laborers, Stakhanovites, in Hazmat suits DIE from Covid-19. Science is to no avail. There is no secular cure for death when even doctors die. There is however a cure of folly. And is called a vaccine.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr “We live among ruins in a World in which ‘god is dead’ as Nietzsche stated. The ideals of today are comfort, expediency, surface knowledge, disregard for one’s ancestral heritage and traditions, catering to the lowest standards of taste and intelligence, apotheosis of the pathetic, hoarding of material objects and possessions, disrespect for all that is inherently higher and better — in other words a complete inversion of true values and ideals, the raising of the victory flag of ignorance and the banner of degeneracy. In such a time, social decadence is so widespread that it appears as a natural component of all political institutions. The crises that dominate the daily lives of our societies are part of a secret occult war to remove the support of spiritual and traditional values in order to turn man into a passive instrument of dark powers. The common ground of both Capitalism and Socialism is a materialistic view of life and being. Materialism in its war with the Spirit has taken on many forms; some have promoted its goals with great subtlety, whilst others have done so with an alarming lack of subtlety, but all have added, in greater or lesser measure, to the growing misery of Mankind. The forms which have done the most damage in our time may be enumerated as: Freemasonry, Liberalism, Nihilism, Capitalism, Socialism, Marxism, Imperialism, Anarchism, Modernism and the New Age.”
Another path into the contemporary by Seyyed Hossein Nasr-https://traditionalhikma.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Contemporary-Man-between-the-Rim-and-the-Axis-copy.pdf
It must be remembered that, in the West, first man rebelled against Heaven with the humanism of the Renaissance and only later did the modern sciences come into being. The humanistic anthropology of the Renaissance was a necessary background for the scientific revolution of the 17th century and the creation of a science which although in one sense non-human is in another sense the most anthropomorphic form of knowledge possible, for it makes human reason and the empirical data based upon the human senses the sole criteria for the validity of all knowledge. Concerning the gradual disfiguration of the image of man in the West see G. Durand, "Défiguration
Berdyaev observes how “it is noteworthy that at a time when every religious sanction of authority has vanished, we live in a very authoritarian epoch.” The point In Berdyaev’s interpretation, modernity thinks that it can reverse Adam’s fall and reestablish paradise, but it only blindly and dumbly reenacts that fall. It is a case of titanic hubris and of equally titanic nemesis. “The world war and the revolutionary processes which have followed it have a metaphysical significance for the fate of man.” The war put on display, bloodily and destructive, the demonic inhumanity that had long simmered under the veneer of civilization; it showed that the modern utopian conceit expressed a fundamental nihilism which, discovering that it could not create on a godlike level, turned its fury on creation, especially the human portion of that creation, and sought its annihilation. “The war revealed the personality of our civilization,” Berdyaev writes; “it cheapened life, it taught man to take no thought for human life and personality, to consider them as means and instruments in the hands of the fatality of history.” That term personality operates centrally in Berdyaev’s Christian anthropology. “The tragedy of the situation lies in the fact that great masses of humanity have awakened and come into power at the moment of a falling away from Christianity and the loss of all religious beliefs.
Hhmmmm...."subdermal electronic prison," this pretty much sums up our current crisis and this dehumanizing thick eFog is moving quickly across the face of the Earth.... swallowing up every single fragment of viable life.
Now you have be wondering hoe easy it would to come up with a Klaus, a Bill and such. A bit of engineering, some implants, some DNA tricks and voila.