On the subject of Alchemy, it's an Arabian word along with algorithm (Al Gorith'm, Al Chem'y). There is no denying the human thirst for knowledge in antiquarian times. The real trouble is that in the future there will be machine-run Arabian cities which have The Airtight Garage as a prototype! Everything in modernity trends to one thing, which is the dual-tone of ones and zeros of Jirel Meets Magic (prev), or a future run by AI.
This is the sorcerous area that seels us into the mirror of illusions (electromagnetism or straight-line logic), that has been previously referred to as The Black Sun of Numerical Calculation - from Clair Noto's story Wizards of the Black Sun (SS23) where the goat informs Sonja the city is an illusion.
The shadowy story concerns a compulsive and seemingly anal-obsessive illusion of black magic. The mirror of illusions is the area which has the facts of sterility, but there are also the facts of fertility.
The latter area is what is known as empirical tradition, or places of power. Gardeners who construct ponds will know about it; different things intermix in low-key jungle warfare.
Empirical reason dates from Newton's experiments with light ('Newton's Knives' C4-C6) and the facts of an alternate or parallel universe
It is this universe which trends towards ones and zeros; all human senses are forms of electromagnetism, and the facts of this universe attract the ego of acolytes.
Inside the mirror of illusions everything is convincing in a dreamlike way. Outside of the mirror is the physical reality of our symmetrical planet Earth which is not sterile, but composed of dirt and cleanliness (bathing rituals.)
In the real world, one is often able to se that physical activity is mildly coordinated between different things. The world can appear untidy - as in the Moondog video (P192) - or even squalid - as in Hyborian alleyways - but it has a type of magic that is missing in a world of logical illusion. The magic of fortune (O Henry.)
I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves. (Byron)
Fortune occurs where physical differences intermix and permit the emission of psychic vibrations. Friction, tension, stress, low-level feuds.
From untidiness and disarray, fortune arises; but thes are the exact things that are missing from modernity! Whether it's an Arabian city in the desert, or Walt Disney's original template in Florida, it's all the same.
'(Conservation) is a science whose principles are written in the oldest code in the world, the laws of nature.'
Nature is a 'science' and therefore comes under the sway of Newtonian dynamics. This logical order exists outside of the antagonistic pairing of opposites that constitute the flexing of muscles-in-action (the medieval/antiquarian world.)
This world is pre-inductive reason, and goes in exactly the other direction to the new-Disneys of Dubai and Neom city.
Futuristic optimism gives way to age-old patinas of watering-holes and age-old feuds between Bedouin tribes. Age contains feuds just as muscles contain antagonistic pairs; it's the way of action. (As Angus McKie wrote in a story for HM, the future depends on whether you're an optimist or s pessimist!)
The optimism of 50s Disney might be tenable if it was based on more than simply the 'favts' of an illusory order . But the fact is, inside this mirror of illusions of eternal optimism exists the profane serpent that corrupts organic form to toxic uses. 'Clean meat' (prev) or gene-editing that do without the cultivation of opposites (coordinated disarray, lack of logic in balanced systems of action.)
The irony is that from future-optimism springs only psychic weakness, a dream of listlessness with no future (the eternal present with no psychic depth.) Physical untidiness or even squalor are necessary for the growth of intriguing possibilities that otherwise are absent.
The psyche is real; physical untidiness is real; only the ego is attracted to illusions of sterile logic that appeal to reason, that are not felt in cosmic vistas of uncommon pursuit.
The stories found in Hyborian disarray and abandon contain the element of fortune, the zest that gives life a psychic foundation. In a world of no differences, the psyche is in a perpetual confusion between fact and fantasy. Authoritarianism runs amock without the coordinated disarray of fortune.
Instead of antagonistic principles that create action - muscles, feuding - the modern order caves-in to the standard of technique. Often this takes the form of infrastructure, as in Biden's funding proposals; technique is just another word for the dollar devoid of the strength of communal psyche.
Politics has become a war of numbers, watched by listless psyches of a bemused and confused populace.
As noted previously, technique works but supplies a false standard where the psyche is in mortal peril. A classic example is Michael Schumacher's skiing accident, which broke his psyche into a million shards. Nevertheless, the standard of technique gives life to this shell (pun unintentional.)
A hermetic system.will always misdirect, be it Alchemy or electromagnetism, since it disregards primal rhythm; the serpent-power of Hyboria (see next post) or worms of the earth. The trail of a worm is forever in contrary directions, symbolising destruction and creation. Primal rhythm can't be denied, but can be corrupted inside the mirror of illusions into the profane serpent of amorous meat (prev.)
A hermetic system has no trail-bossism because it has no natural trails, only endless 'facts' of the illusory order. Only through feuding can rebellion occur; the alternate trail away from the psychic confusion of ones and zeros advocated by 'them'.
TOXIQUE AMOUR
(dual-tone electronic piece, not on YouTube apparently)
