Monday, September 12, 2005

The Negatively Existent One


Painting by Suprematist Kazmir Malevich



Since Being is the Universal stripped of It's predicates, or what can be said of It, the infinitely variable X is sometimes considered in its negative aspect, as Nothing. Of course there is a subtle and crucial difference between Being and Nothing. We have this occult interpretation of Exodus XVII.7, in regards to the thirsty grumblers at Massah - Moses struck a rock, from which water proceeded to flow: "And concerning this, the children of Israel wish to know in their minds, like as it is written: is the Tratragrammaton in the midst of us, or the 'Negatively Existent One?' From The Law of Love or Else by David Arthur Walters


The Law of Love or Else

On Becoming Nothing


I died as a mineral and became a plant,
I died as a plant and rose as an animal,
I died as animal and I was Man.
Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
Yet once more I shall die as Man to soar

WIth angels blest; but even from angelhood
I must pass on: "All save the face of God doth perish."
When I have sacrificed my angelic soul,
I shall become what no mind has ever conceived.
Oh, let me not exist! for nonexistence
Proclaims in organ tones: "To Him shall we return.