All illusions
are convincing, and a mirror image is bound to look real as it’s a reflection
in immaterial (resolved) space.
The idea that something
can both convince the mind and be at the same time a wil-o-the-whisp is the
basic premise of The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune. Through long hours of
studying Tuzun Thune’s sorcerous illusions, Kull is finally unable to
distinguish in his mazed consciousness which is the real Kull.
Is everything a
case of belief, as the wizard would have him think? Mirrors are the most basic
forms of technology (optical illusion) and, in a world composed of mirrors,
that might well be so.
This would be
resolved space – straight-line perspective amenable to the ego that believes in
itself. It is the fact that things exist outside the ego that the wizardry can
be defeated.
‘Kull!’ cries Brule, shattering the spell.
People have shared bonds, not just with eachother but with the labyrinthine
likes of nature, with the decrepit dereliction of city alleyways.
Bonds can be
broken by straight-line certainties that attract the ego like moths to a flame.
It is the very certainty that is false. The labyrinthine ways of a forest are
the stage for the everlasting hunt that is Man’s primitive nature. Blood and
savagery by the light of the clear moon.
The urge to hunt
is clean and wholesome, a sign of an active nature. Because we live in an
inductive reality – of the mirror – it is a combination of the compulsive head
(ego) and the cold-blooded reptilian urge underlying it.
A 2-fold order
that cannot deny the physique, and merely corrupts it into reptilian ways of
the sinuous and unwholesome (see “clean meat” P130)
The immaterial space
of an optical illusion is resolved space has no finality. As in the Kull story,
there is an infinite progression of mirrors, each comparatively smaller.
This cold-light
reptile technology is opposed by the finality that is the cycle of life; that
things decline and invite an upsurge of vitality; that decadence is strength
and regeneration.
The cold mirrors
shatter and the reptilian illusion with them; decrepit dereliction then creeps
into the abandoned mansion of Tuzun Thune, and that is the finality that
destroys the infinite illusion of resolved space.
M and J Severin ©
Marvel
In the land of
the mirrors, light is reflected infinitely into a logical fairy tale of the
acolytes’ egos. In the land of nature’s symmetries, light is destroyed (by
leaves) in the physical reality of nature's symmetries.
When something
becomes nothing it at the same time can become ultra-convincing (see Hiroshima
quote, pre,) This is the infinite mirror culture we’re in: Einstein can be seen
as a reflection of Faraday – see Vincent quote HB46
For Einstein’s
quote on Faraday see
HB21 Faraday invented the solenoid which becomes the template for
all subsequent works on electrodynamics – including special relativity. The
logical ego trap is sprung, since all subsequent works become ever-more
geometrical (CERN) and ever-more
convincing (to the egos of acolytes.)
It’s an infinite
mirror illusion which is also real – it’s just not the whole of reality! The
confusion with illusory time is a case-in-point. “Relative to” spacetime, time
might be an illusion, but this is a geometrical zone that has the same sterile
components as CERN.
Time is
expressed in rhythmic symmetries which symbolise cycles of fertility. In the
physical world of fertility, time is expressed; in the immaterial land of
sterility, it is not expressed.
Living things
contain components of the cosmic symmetry (front, back; left,right); they are
almost defined by a sense of balance. You could say this is an illusion – like time
is an illusion – but it is physically real, containing primordial rhythm.
Because immaterial reality is sterile, it has no primordial rhythm but, since
physique can’t be denied, it contains the profane serpent (or profane meat,
prev.)
The arguments are confusing since relativity is a type of linguistic trap (see Vincent). It is not true in rhythmic, symmetrical situations – such as sun and moon – but is so in geometrical situations like CERN (that attract acolytes’ egos).
The arguments are confusing since relativity is a type of linguistic trap (see Vincent). It is not true in rhythmic, symmetrical situations – such as sun and moon – but is so in geometrical situations like CERN (that attract acolytes’ egos).
A geometrical
society has to build geometrical spaces – such as the proposed Neom city, for
instance. These spaces have to be sterile (algorithmic, numerical) and entail
rubbish-removal. They build-over fertile areas such as oases. A fertile zone is
generally left to its own cycles of decay and revival. The idea of leaving
things to be is anathema to the ego that is attracted to number and algorithm. They
find these results convincing.
But in fact
there can be no revival without leaving things to decline au naturel.
Civilizations decline and then renew in periodic cycles. Decline is an untidy
state of being that allows for freedom and self-governing psyche.
The physical
decline can be picturesque, and is supportive of strong psyche and eventual
pickup (Detroit). States of decline will always tend to be built-over by the
ultra-convincing zones of sterilization of culture – but the progress is an illusion.
The progress is
in a sense the infinite mirrors of the modern illusion; very convincing but
going nowhere physically and psychically. As was stated elsewhere, the sea is a
type of illusion that now reflects and now has deepness (Francis Stevens Claimed).
Everything has its illusory aspect, but searching for convincing truth in
mirrors of modernity is even more of an illusion! What’s much more true is the
melancholy that informs joy in being.
