Saturday, 27 March 2021

Pictorial 160

 As a quick way of tying-up the "P" series - prior to transplanting to the website and uploading pictures, natch - it might be an idea to have a simplified summary.

Simplification is often the province of spiritual beliefs which are dismissed by the modern science of "facts". However, the facts of our illusory system contain no.primal symmetry. They are applicable to the logical and factual egos of acolytes of the mirror of illusions (electromagnetism, algorithm).

As was said back in HB132, Darwinism is a way of replacing the sublime symmetry of the erotic and feminine with egotistical "facts" of competition. Competition then becomes a fiction of the illusory system.of facts.

Symmetry is a manifestation of cosmic fecundity and the circularity of natural forms. We enter the mirror into a land of sterility (that enables rubbish-removal) and not a physical manifestation of fertility. Within the mirror exists the profane serpent that corrupts natural rhythm and physique.

"Clean meat" was taken as a case of this corruption into sterile pathways without the use of physique. Bill Gates' pathogen-killing toilet was taken as an example of a sterile system that is a culture-destroyer in terms of the natural pathogen-killing function of a healthy soil (microbes and humus and loam). See "Adastra in Africa".

Another obvious example is Amazon's super-efficient economy of delivery that has led some drivers to an economy of excretion, that they then treat as rubbish-removal in the Amazon bags.

The spokespeople for the sterile system - Greta Thunberg, Brian Cox, David Atten-bore, Richard Dawkins - exist outside of any sense of morbid decadence; of foul-smelling waters and dissolution that presage restoration (see Jaime Hernandez prev.)

Decadent strength is seen in the ruinous, archaic settings of Howard, and in the French symbolists (Pelleas and Melisande, prev.) The morbid fertility that also inhabits the mangrove forests of the deep South (P159).

Modern settings have none of this rustic strength and simplicity, and their illusions of endless mirrors confound us so that we no longer recognize fertile situations.

Against this is set the spiritual and physical vision of Kanye West's cotton-plantation in Wyoming. Design and fashion, if they can be integrated into a spiritual revival, restore old-school taste and relate it to flesh and bone.

Elsa Peretti, Tiffany bone cuff (inspired by the catacombs of a monastery in Rome)

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