Subject: The -Gaard(en) of un-Earthly Delights
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 20:11:00 PDT



[The subject should not take his subjection lying down ... unless a 
woman is involved]


Already thrown, what does one _lose_ by emerging into and engaging 
with/in the world?  The ability to _emit_ truth:

     "That the knowing spirit is an existing individual spirit,
     and that every human being is such an entity existing for
     himself, is a truth I cannot too often repeat"
      (Kierkegaard, CUP, p. 169).

The reflection of a Depth yields a blank slate; a proto-anything is 
lacking; and a -script has yet to be developed.  How wonderful, how 
FANTASTIC, it is to (pretend to) ignore Being!  Yet, in this ass-umed 
ignorance of being, as a salient virtue of the retracted existent, there 
already resides a "reduplication" of Truth's primal emission.

The subject (sub-_iacere_), as it stands, must have a ground upon which 
to lie, in order to succumb to the belief that "thought and being mean 
one and the same thing" (Kierkegaard, p. 170).  For the one who has 
received the gift of being and/or thought LYING DOWN -- meaning, 
_hylicly_, the one who can say: "I always stand ready gratefully to 
accept the gift ..." (ibid.) -- knows being only as the ground(ing) of 
existence, and Thought as the reflective experience of the ground(ing).

So to say, about the question, "What is meant by being?" that: "it is 
... important to take heed lest the knowing spirit be tricked into 
losing itself in the indeterminate, so that it fantastically becomes a 
something [an _anything_? -- E. M.] that no existing human ever was or 
can be ..." (ibid.) -- Well:

It happens that the "indeterminate" -- Depth, Silence -- is the 
'ground(ing)' providing being with its meaning and its Truth (see Grant, 
_Gnosticism_: 1961, p. 163).  Even in the most primal of moments 
inscribed by the ancient Gnostics (e.g., the 'Tripartite Tractate', NHL) 
_Mind_ is conceived as a reaction against indeterminacy, an opening 
WITHIN the already infinitely open -- but an opening of containment or 
contentment ... of LIGHT.

Appealing to such a conception, it may be said that truth need not be 
either objective or "subjective," but instead may be conceived as a 
continuing mo(ve)ment in/of the overcoming of infinity, acted out 
individually and privately (autonomously!) by/in each and every one of 
us.


~~ Edward



















 

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