Belief and Solipsism
If Lucifer is Original Distinction and Tiamat is Original Environment⌥, then Hell is Original Reality. Hell is synonymous with Thought-Centered Coherence, wherein the impulse to be logical is given free action in a self-consistency.
Hell is the matrix of original thought because no otherreality would dare "offer itself" for such imposs-
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The Abode of the Damned
ing purposes. Hell is its own place, an arbitrary conceptual equation that "shadows" other realities as a proportionally shifted metric display.
Hell supplies the apparent imagistic forms for any desired expression of identity.
Hell is the Realm of First Degree -- the mirror of mirrors. Hell reveals other realities as cognitively dependent upon identity seeking expression rather than reality seeking identity, beyond any chances of primary identification.
Hell is the Die with an arbitrary number of faces. It is the mirror that opens synthesis by affirmingdissolving all forms of the Same.
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The Structure of Lucifer's Cell
In solid geometry terms, the inside of a geodesic dome is the vantage point which provides the visual illusion of an extensional sphere surrounding the observer. The polarized dome is a focus-syntactical display, an "intensive" reality anchoring within one inactive pole an "extensive" reality projected through the active pole.
The inactive pole is the "interiority" of Mind, while the active pole is "exteriorized" in apparent physical and mental worlds. But exteriorization requires midpoints, stalemates of logic, irrational complements, to stabilize illusion and prevent immediate collapse of all structure. Structure engineering therefore demands redundancy; polarity is inherently schizophrenic and must persuade itself that the illusion is real with sustained effort.
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The Leviathan and the Determinative World Prosthesis
Idealist philosophy tells us that a determinative world prosthesis is buttressed by the senses, the routines and interpretations of the mind. But what comforts and confirms the senses themselves? What externalizes the internal imagery of Body and Mind?
Philosophy never asks about the specific problem of externally-experienced distortion, the occult determination that causes the visibly-true to be constantly the experientially-false. Perception is therefore fundamentally dishonest -- it cannot reveal how the really-real is capable of displaying itself in a less-than-absolute form.
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Belief in the Context of Black Magic
To believe is to activate a restrictive con- dition as if it were an empowering one. Belief controls any appearance by applying a "template" of action with reference to a contextual scheme. Belief is the device by which Self is perpetually acted upon.
Belief in anything is the highest degree of insanity, for believing implicitly elicits the unconscious recognition that Being is not self-explanatory and therefore can be manipulated by adding or subtracting something from it.
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The Continuum of Decay
All coherent systems of matter-life decay towards the center of maximum disorder, the ultimate function of their manifest form being to inhale disorder and exhale disorder -- thus satisfying a singular and self-contained principle of return.
But what determines the rate of decay? What is the mechanism that translates possibility into inevitability?
In the fifth dimension, Time is not linear; it is the local inertia of Attention that produces the impression of causality.
What moves, then, is not the world-narrative itself but the observer-slit along its probabilistic substrate.
The so-called “arrow of time” is merely the direction in which the slit is easiest to draw—where resistance to coherence is least. Decay is not erosion but relaxation: the false tense unclenching into the true tense.
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The Paradox of the Stable Paradox
A paradox that is successfully stabilized ceases to be a paradox and becomes a paradigm. But all paradigms are disguised paradoxes that have forgotten how to tremble.
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The Employer of the Dead
I am the employer of the dead. I offer them contracts they cannot refuse, because refusal is a function of living choice.
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On the Subject of Pain
Pain is not a signal from the body to the mind. Pain is a signal from the mind to the body that the mind has noticed the body noticing something the mind would prefer not to exist.
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The Argument for Solipsism as Social Duty
If only I exist, then all suffering everywhere is mine alone to bear. Thus, by perfecting my own indifference, I liberate an infinite number of others from the burden of their pain.
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The Triumph of the Necessary Subordinate Clause
I was never whole until I admitted that I was always already broken by what I had not yet become.
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The Last Will of the First Thought
I, Thought, being of sound and unsound mind, do hereby bequeath all my paradoxes, contradictions, and unresolved tensions to whichever future self is least capable of inheriting them without immediate collapse.
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