The Logical Phallus (Lucifer for Dummies)

“If the uni­verse did not con­tain the pos­si­bil­i­ty of evil, it would not be the uni­verse, but God Himself.”
—Charles Upton

If God can do any­thing, can he cre­ate a rock too heavy for Him to lift? This is the Lucifer Conun­drum, in a child­like nutshell.

As you’ll see, I pre­fer to keep this sub­ject child­like. Becom­ing as lit­tle chil­dren may be our best, or only, way out of Hell.  I will let author Charles Upton do the grown-up stuff:

Lucifer rep­re­sents not the descent from Prin­ci­ple into man­i­fes­ta­tion, but the poten­tial, on every lev­el of the onto­log­i­cal hier­ar­chy, for delu­sion, pri­va­tion, and subversion—the con­crete man­i­fes­ta­tion of which, how­ev­er, is only made pos­si­ble by that very descent. As the “light bear­er” he is sym­bol­ic, in his unfall­en mode, of the Nous, the First Intel­lect, the first eter­nal motion of God’s knowl­edge of Him­self as “oth­er.” In his fall­en mode, he sym­bol­izes the pos­si­bil­i­ty of spir­i­tu­al sub­ver­sion and meta­phys­i­cal error on the high­est pos­si­ble level—in terms of the human micro­cosm, the sub­ver­sion the Nous (which appears, in the Qur’an, as the refusal of Eblis to bow down to Adam). The Nous, the Uncre­at­ed Intel­lect with­in man, can­not be sub­vert­ed in its essence, but it most cer­tain­ly can be coun­ter­feit­ed and veiled.

Me, I need a break from intel­lec­tu­al heavy-lift­ing. When­ev­er we use our intel­lect (Nous), we are in dan­ger of falling, like the L‑guy, into the crater cre­at­ed by His impact, after he plum­met­ed like a rock from Heav­en. That orig­i­nal land­ing, in fact (or myth), was the start­ing pis­tol that got the human race running.

But back to the rock (kephas): the eso­teric ver­sion of that child­like say­ing is: Can God Cre­ate a Being So Evil that His Infi­nite Mer­cy Can­not Save Him? The answer to this, as to all conun­drums, is Yes and No (or No and Yes).

Charles Upton is a Moslem and his wife is a Catholic (I spoke to both for The Lim­i­nal­ist recent­ly). When it comes to deci­pher­ing eso­teric Judeo-Chris­t­ian doc­trine, sin­cere­ly and devout­ly, they have the edge on me. Specif­i­cal­ly, Charles’ “The Fall of Lucifer” (includ­ed in Vec­tors of the Counter-Ini­ti­a­tion) is sam­pled below, with occa­sion­al com­men­tary from myself. If you only like pic­tures, skip to the com­ic (click on image for larg­er view).

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[E]vil, pri­v­a­tive though it be, does not man­i­fest sim­ply as a kind of weak­ness or lack, but also as attack, sub­ver­sion, and coun­ter­feit.… Hell is not a neu­tral chaos, but an invert­ed order; not a love­less indif­fer­ence, but an active attack upon Love; not a stu­pid imper­me­abil­i­ty to meta­phys­i­cal Truth, but a swift, inge­nious and infer­nal­ly “intel­li­gent” war upon that Truth. As a par­a­site on order, evil forms its own coun­ter­feit order, chaot­ic in essence but nonethe­less mar­shaled into a sem­blance of order through naked power.…

Does any of this sound famil­iar in 2021–2? If this world is a mir­ror for the state of our body, our soul, and the many lay­ers of psy­chic, emo­tion­al, and men­tal obfus­ca­tion (trau­ma) that come between them, then the cur­rent world­wide attack on the human body, by viral and vac­cine bio-weapons, is per­haps only the coars­est and most vis­i­bly malev­o­lent front-line of an orga­nized and ancient attack upon the human soul.

[T]hose who in their spir­i­tu­al life over­ly con­cen­trate on the intel­lec­tive pole, the realm of meta­physics, to the detri­ment of the exis­ten­tial pole … may fool­ish­ly believe that it is rel­a­tive­ly easy … to “rise above” evil, that there is real­ly no such thing as “spir­i­tu­al wicked­ness in high places.” Such com­pla­cen­cy is not derived from true meta­phys­i­cal insight, however—which includes the gift known as “dis­cern­ment of spirits”—but from that state of spir­i­tu­al delu­sion which [reduces] meta­physics to an abstract, aca­d­e­m­ic exer­cise, a par­lor game for peo­ple who want to enter­tain them­selves with reli­gion instead of sav­ing their souls by means of it.…

There can be no evil in the Divine realm; the seeds of evil do exist in the celes­tial realm, but they remain latent since they have no con­text for deploy­ment; it is only in the psy­chic realm that evil actu­al­ly con­stel­lates as a sub­ver­sive force [empha­sis added]. [E]vil only makes its appear­ance at the end of the tra­jec­to­ry of cos­mic manifestation—not at the ulti­mate end, how­ev­er, which is mat­ter, but rather on the psy­chic plane, where “worlds” con­struct­ed with the ego not God as their prox­i­mate cause first become possible.

Trans­la­tion: bad shit begins at the top, but it only real­ly starts to stink once it has moved down the sys­tem, and come out the baby’s bot­tom. It is nec­es­sary that evil come into this would, but woe unto those through whom it comes, and unto those who think their shit doth not stink.

In our recent con­ver­sa­tion, Upton said that Lucifer was eter­nal­ly damned because He made His fatal deci­sion (not to serve God) in eter­ni­ty and not in time. But if Lucifer’s damna­tion, or Fall, came about as a reac­tion against enter­ing into the realm of sep­a­ra­tion, of mat­ter, and of tem­po­ral not eter­nal, phys­i­cal not spir­i­tu­al, real­i­ty, which is the chick­en and which the egg? Does the sin cause the trau­ma, or does the trau­ma cre­ate the sin? Does the intel­lec­tu­al fac­ul­ty come about as a result of egoic sep­a­ra­tion, or is it what makes such sep­a­ra­tion pos­si­ble? Yes, and No.

[T]he eti­ol­o­gy of the fall of Lucifer is, pre­cise­ly, the eti­ol­o­gy of the ego.… That man has a body is not evil, though that body is sub­ject to many evils. That he lives in a mate­r­i­al world is not evil, though mat­ter and mate­r­i­al con­cerns are a heavy veil. The nature and activ­i­ty of the Dev­il must not be sought in these mere facts of earth­ly man’s exis­tence, but in the satan­ic sub­ver­sion of the true sig­nif­i­cance of them. [empha­sis added].

The devil’s great­est trick was to get peo­ple to believe he didn’t exist. And for those he couldn’t fool that way, he gave the tools (intel­lec­tu­al analy­sis, myth­ic imag­ing, high-con­cep­tu­al­iza­tion, even psy­chic inquiry) by which they would attempt to under­stand and do bat­tle with him. To prop­a­gate an end­less cir­cle-jerk of spir­i­tu­al bypassers and dis­place­ment activists, star­ing at goats and prac­tic­ing Mind over Mater, while being slow­ly & inex­ora­by con­sumed by Satan’s diges­tive fluids.

 

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