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Bombshells
BLASTS IN THE BRIMSTONE MINE
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It is nothing short of remarkable that humanity still cannot
stare reality straight in its cosmic eyes and affirm: you owe us
nothing, and we owe you thing. (p.59)
For the death of god denotes the death of idealism in man-
kind. The most toxic intellectual venom caused mankind to
fall into a coma over ten thousand years ago. Who can possi-
bly prognosticate what illness and madness will ensue when he
finally opens his eyes and sees reality for the first time, more-
over, when it dawns on him how much evil he committed in
his stupor? His ocean of tears would drown the earth. (p.61)
For so long humans have glorified their own existence. They
have claimed to be the privileged sons and daughters of per-
fect gods—a political rank above royalty!—and yet in this
vain ivory tower they have not once considered the possibility
that they rank on par with fecal matter on the weighted scale
of the universe. (p.65)
Perhaps the secret to life lies in an alternate viewpoint alto-
gether. Rather than injecting anesthesia to numb away the
storm... chase after the storm. Descend into the brimstone
mine of hell and summon its devils to conspire on earth!
(p.69)
When a person jumps into the air, they inevitably hit the
ground. When a species militantly breeds absolutist ideology
into itself for over ten thousand years, they inevitably suffer
an apocalypse of the psyche, an Armageddon of the intellect,
a nuclear winter of the soul. (p.76)
Virtually all major earthly ideologies have entered the nihil-
istic stage, and they all converge to form an inescapable psy-
chic black hole right now. The only shelter lies in the abyss
of one’s own head. Every single human being from now into
the future will experience fallout in the abyss. (p.79)
Anyone who enjoys the freedom of their own personal moral
valuation cannot be anything other than a joyful pessimist in
a world full of nihilists! (p.81) •
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— Timothy —
Timothy
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— Timothy —
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— Dedication —
Dedication
I
DEDICATE this dissertation to the only man in his-
tory who ever thought like me, Friedrich Nietzsche.
His ideas permeate this treatise so thoroughly, you can
almost smell his cologne on the pages. •
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— Confession —
Confession
B
ROTHER Friedrich insisted that a philosopher is
nothing more than a confessor. He means the psy-
chology of an intellectual underlies and justifies
their worldview—that a man or woman’s psychology and
philosophy cannot be separated.
I chiseled these essays as I entered into the most pessi-
mistic and jaded mood of my life thus far. Did the ideas cause
the mood or did the mood cause the ideas?
Honestly, the creation of this hurt very badly. I would
often close my laptop consumed by a dreadful nausea, which
haunted me the rest of the day. I ideated suicide incessantly
and became distant and apathetic to all the loving women in
my life, whom felt worried sick—one even reported me to an
authority as a danger to myself.
Nietzsche casually referenced the abyss in his own prose.
It denotes an intellectual position of nonentity or non-ideol-
ogy, an acceptance of unreality and amorality—to unveil false
appearance. In simplest terms, it entails abandonment of
faith in absolutist ideals like god, soul, morality, truth,
beauty, and eternity.
In the abyss, psychic disillusionment and pessimism en-
sue. Nevertheless, as gloomy and unpleasant as this sounds,
Nietzsche did not espouse traditional pessimism per se. To
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the contrary, he entreated fellow travelers to love life with his
maxim amor fati, that is, love of fate.
The existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre soberly defined man
as condemned to exist, as if humanity had been created then
abandoned, left behind to live alone without the courtesy of
an explanation as to why. To rationalize such a bizarre mys-
tery, primitive humans invented vain ideals—religion—to
glorify themselves, i.e., absurd mythical tales that not only
excuse human ignorance but deify it rapaciously!
In order to really love life, a person needs to live in reality.
To live in reality, a person needs to expunge idealism. As said
earlier, philosophy is nothing but psychology, alas... this aph-
oristic dissertation is nothing but the tear-drenched diary of
a solitary wanderer, the diary of a lost soul, of a freak in the
abyss, of... the devil? •
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Tablet
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The Devil
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
1. The Riddle of the Riddle .......................................... 15
2. The Earliest Nomenclature for God ......................... 16
3. Origins of Diabolism & Satanism. ............................ 17
4. Christianity’s Abuse of Greek Philosophy. ............... 18
5. Origin of Demonology. ............................................. 19
6. Deification & Diabolization ..................................... 20
7. Moral Relativism. ...................................................... 20
8. Classical Liberalism of The Enlightenment.............. 21
9. The First Line of The Bill of Rights. ........................ 22
10. Become a Living Devil. ........................................... 24
Suicide
THE ORIGIN OF GOD &
GENEALOGY OF EVIL IN RELIGION
11. Reality & Ideality. ................................................... 25
12. Ideal of Pure Reason As Definition of God. ........... 25
13. Worst Transcendental Error. .................................. 27
14. Earliest Natural Philosophy. ................................... 28
15. Hypothesis of Super-Human Causality. ................. 29
16. Advent of Religion. ................................................. 29
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17. Psychology of Polytheism........................................ 30
18. Psychology of Monotheism. .................................... 30
19. Discovery of Morality.............................................. 31
20. Advent of Sacrificial Worship. ................................ 31
21. Inception of the Priest Class. .................................. 32
22. Politicization of the Priest Class. ............................ 33
23. Homicide by the Priest Class. ................................. 33
24. Psychopathization of the Priest Class. .................... 33
25. Masochization of the Lay Class. ............................. 34
26. Inception of Holy Wars. ......................................... 34
27. Birth of The Devil................................................... 35
28. Entire Psychology of Religion. ................................ 37
29. Current Status of Religion. ..................................... 38
30. Warning Against Statism. ....................................... 38
31. Grounds of Secular Morality. .................................. 39
32. Psychology of Secularism. ....................................... 40
33. Terms of a Social Contract. .................................... 41
34. Best Future for Humanity. ...................................... 41
35. Afterword ................................................................ 42
Apocalypse
THE DEATH OF GOD
36. Parable of the Assassin. ........................................... 43
37. Earliest Assassins. ................................................... 44
38. Zombie Sadist ......................................................... 44
39. Ostracism, not Extermination. ................................ 45
40. Naked Imperialism. ................................................. 45
41. Universal Force. ...................................................... 46
42. Idealism as Religion of Absolutism. ........................ 47
43. Truest Enemy of Antitheism. ................................. 49
44. Statism as Politics of Force. .................................... 50
45. Genetic Sadomasochism. ........................................ 51
46. Masochistic Psychology. ......................................... 52
47. Suicide Mission ....................................................... 54
48. Theogony. ............................................................... 55
49. Immortal Combat ................................................... 56
50. The World’s First Fan Fiction ................................ 56
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51. Ontology: God as Zombie ...................................... 57
52. Epistemology: God as Boogieman .......................... 58
53. Morality: God as Freddy Krueger ........................... 59
54. Aesthetics: God as Frankenstein ............................. 61
55. The Apocalypse ....................................................... 62
Nihilism
FALLOUT IN THE ABYSS
56. Claude Monet ......................................................... 63
57. Monsters of Fate. .................................................... 63
58. Cosmic Amorality. .................................................. 65
59. Predicament ............................................................ 66
60. Nietzsche Contra Kant............................................ 67
61. Thunderbolts of Fate .............................................. 69
62. Hellraisers ............................................................... 70
63. Suicide & Cannibalism ........................................... 70
64. Orgasms of Humanicide ......................................... 71
65. Annihilism .............................................................. 72
66. Theistic Nihilism .................................................... 73
67. Secular Nihilism ...................................................... 77
68. Fallout in the Abyss. ............................................... 78
69. Joyful Pessimism ..................................................... 80
The Abyss
THE LAST LIBERATION
70. Panegyric to Nietzsche. ........................................... 83
71. Panegyric to Heraclitus. .......................................... 83
72. Contrarian Dilemma. .............................................. 83
73. Illusion of Civilization............................................. 84
74. Socrates on the Last Liberation. ............................. 84
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The Devil
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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And everyone within a thousand miles instantly became
enlightened.
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summary, neither devil nor evil share etymology, nor do they
derive from deva.
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significance. A satan acts adversarially; whereas, a devil be-
trays first and acts adversarially second, particularly through
false accusation—as indicated by the original Greek word di-
aballein meaning to throw across or to bad mouth.
The masochistic middle child in the Abrahamic family
of religions, namely Christianity, utilizes the devil theme
with iconic precision. It portrays the motif of social betrayal
and political mutiny as the very prologue to the entire Chris-
tian Armageddon saga, in a polynymous episode entitled Lu-
ciferic Rebellion, War in Heaven, and Fall From Grace.
Long story short, the high angel Lucifer disavows allegiance
to the god Yahweh, revolts against the kingdom of heaven as
the adversary Satan, and roves the earth slandering Yahweh,
wherefore he solidifies into the Devil. To this point, Chris-
tian lore even underscores the early Greek motif of double-
crossing when it explicitly calls the Devil by the eponym Ac-
cuser!
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Greek metaphysics! In hindsight, that template appears ar-
chaic, but in that era it revolutionized human thought.
Do not mischaracterize this as an apologetic for Chris-
tian theology. The author would merely like to suggest that
it would be more surprising if Christianity did not penetrate
Europe, as its keenest ideas originated in the society of great-
est genius at that time. Theologians revere Italian saint
Thomas Aquinas as their champion of monotheistic logic; he
furnished his five proofs for the existence of god, which bor-
row heavily from Aristotle. Furthermore, the apostle Paul
went so far as to pen the New Testament in Greek. And as
previously elaborated, the character type of the Devil is
rooted in Greek diabolos, the idea of a slanderous backstab-
ber. In summary, this does not mean the ancient Greeks
themselves conceived or perpetuated Christianity—it means
that the Jews and Romans blatantly misappropriated the
Greeks!
5. Origin of Demonology.
Consider the oft-maligned term demon. Of course, it de-
scends back to ancient Greece too. Philosophers expounded
the moral premise of daimon in reference to the relationship
between character and destiny. The Presocratic sage Heracli-
tus declared, “Ethos anthropos daimon” (character is fate).
Greek daimon turned into Latin daemon, and then English
demon. Aristotle theorized that dedication to virtue caused
eudaimonia—happiness or good spirit. Later in medieval
Europe, demon came to signify an evil being synonymous
with devil or satan.
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6. Deification & Diabolization.
This etymology exemplifies with lucidity the way one
civilization would take a heretical concept or mythical being
from another civilization and bastardize it. In fact, this ad-
versarial tradition of misappropriation has become known
aptly by the eponyms demonization and diabolization. That
being said, the opposite also occurred; tribes borrowed myth-
ical beings and glorified them in a tradition known aptly as
deification and beatification. Deify means to honor as a god,
and beatification means to make blessed.
From a distance, religion looks like one long plagiarism.
7. Moral Relativism.
Hesiod distinguishes between good days and evil days,
not knowing that every day is like every other.
—Heraclitus, Fragment 94
Above and beyond the exact history of these three most
common monikers for evil: devil, satan, and demon, the
reader needs to recognize that their usage only holds validity
relative to the perspective of the person whom uses it. In
other words, Yahweh views Lucifer as Satan, but Lucifer also
views Yahweh as Satan at the same time. The moral judgement
implied in each term is relative, not absolute. The narrative of
religious mythology almost always portrays the belligerent
struggle between good and evil from the partisan perspective
of the so-called good god—essentially whichever deity fights
for the faith, rather than against it.
An example of relativism in modern context: Yahweh
amounts to a genocidal theocratic dictator whom rules from
an iron throne in his kingdom. Given today’s classical liberal
values of free speech and individual rights… does it surprise
anyone that Lucifer—deemed the wisest angel—revolted
against Yahweh’s totalitarian state?
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Does this tale not accidentally depict Lucifer, aka the
Devil, as the good guy in actuality, as the libertine, the lion-
heart, the champion? The authors of this novel penned it in
the pre-to-early Middle Age when slaves and peasants ven-
erated human royalty as demigods; plebes still honored the
polity of monarchical kingdoms. Notwithstanding, Western
society has now secularized politics and insists on nothing
less than democracy—another Greek concept, by the way. In
light of this radical transition from inherited royalty to
elected representation, the whole Luciferic Rebellion mythos
is turned on its head!
Lucifer transforms into the revolutionary protagonist
whilst Yahweh turns into the tyrannical antagonist and Jesus
the sycophantic bootlicker.
Point being: moral judgement remains relative to the val-
uation by which its measured. Ancient moral valuation
judged Lucifer to be the Devil; whereas, contemporary moral
valuation judges Yahweh to be the Devil!
Moral judgement is relative to valuation, and valuation is
relative to perspective, i.e., moral relativism aka perspectiv-
ism. Fixed or absolute morality does not exist, and perspec-
tive valuation cannot be avoided.
Perspectivism acts as the bedrock for realism.
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Either everybody is entitled to their own point of view,
or everybody must conform to a universal worldview—usu-
ally under the threat of capital punishment by a religious ter-
rorist. The relative term liberal has become mired in a mael-
strom of political misappropriation. Classical liberalism as-
pires for liberation away from archaic, monistic, absolutistic,
institutionalized tribalism. Authentic liberalism champions
pluralism, perspectivism, and individualism—all synonyms
for the same thing: freedom.
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10. Become a Living Devil.
The Devil embodies liberation. He thinks freely, speaks
freely, and socializes freely. He personifies enlightenment.
He iconifies freedom. Tribal morality judges apostasy and
heresy as the two gravest evils, hence their first two com-
mandments always prohibit false idols and sacrilege. What
the Individual considers good, the Tribe judges to be evil.
Since time immemorial, humanity has seen the world
through the eyes of God—the eyes of the Tribe.
Dear reader, it is time now for humanity to view the
world through the eyes of the Devil—to use one’s own eyes.
It is time now to become the Devil. •
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Suicide
THE ORIGIN OF GOD &
GENEALOGY OF EVIL IN RELIGION
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ideal equates to the being that contains within it all possibil-
ity, in a word, omnipotence.
So! This reveals the main definition of god: the being
that can do anything. The reader will observe how god de-
rives explicitly from the idealism of human reason, or to re-
phrase it, god derives from ideality. Ergo, god qualifies as an
ideal; god is defined as the personification of perfect poten-
tial. Ontologically, the name god refers to the hypothesis of
perfect being that contains a triple ideal within it. Algebra
might classify god as perfection cubed or being to the third
power.
1. Perfect qualities: absolute
2. Perfect form: sublime
3. Perfect presence: eternal
Therefore, in an ironic way god does exist as a notional be-
ing, albeit not in physical reality—god exists in ideality, in the
imagination as the ultimate entity. Alas, it technically be-
comes an error for atheists to categorically refute the exist-
ence of god altogether when in fact it does hold form as a
figure in the intellectual realm—and subsequently as an egre-
gore on the astral plane; for more on god-form egregores, see
the author’s Black Magick Manifesto.
The Christian saint Anselm of Canterbury expounded
his notorious ontological argument. He defined his mono-god
in the text Proslogion in 1078 as the following:
There is no doubt that there exists a being than which
nothing greater can be conceived, and it exists both in the
understanding and in reality.
To rephrase his position in a straightforward manner, he
denotes god to be the greatest being a human can conceive—
exactly what the author elucidated.
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13. Worst Transcendental Error.
With Anselm’s premise laid out, it becomes lucidly clear
where in particular he trespasses into radical falsehood. He
insists that his god does not merely occupy the mantle of
highest being in the realm of ideality; he oversteps that
boundary and insists that his god also exists in reality. In the
very instant of this critical ontological overreach—what Dan-
ish theologian Søren Kierkegaard named a leap of faith—the
notion of god transforms from an ideal into a delusion into
which Anselm places faith. As an aside, this suggests why the
prominent neo-atheist Richard Dawkins named his top book
The God Delusion.
The term transcendence in this context denotes the
crossover between the modes of awareness, specifically, the
back and forth between reality and ideality. Hence, the tragic
conflation whereby the theist mistakes his ideal entity to be a
real entity classifies as humanity’s worst possible transcendental
error.
Voila! Theism has been stripped down to its barest
bones, wherefore anyone can nakedly view it as the severest
violation of the division between reality and ideality, the big-
gest deception upon reality, the grossest epistemological mis-
interpretation, the vilest vandalism of aesthetics.
One of the most enlightened philosophers who ever
lived, Immanuel Kant, highlights the glaring fallacy in the
transcendental error in his tour de force Critique of Pure Rea-
son:
[A deity is] a concept that we can never exhibit in con-
creto in its totality, and thus it is grounded on an idea
which has its seat solely in reason. […] This idea of the
sum total of all possibility [...] refines itself to a concept
thoroughly determined a priori [...] and then must be
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called an ideal of pure reason. If we consider all possible
predicates [...] then we find [...] a mere non-being.
Observe in the above quotation that Kant revives An-
selm’s ontological argument—that god is the highest con-
ceivable ideal. Then in a milestone refutation, Kant demol-
ishes the transcendental error assumed in his position, An-
selm’s faith that the ideal being exists in reality too, as op-
posed to ideality alone. Kant does so in his proof that the
god-ideal can only derive a priori from reason and never from
empiricism.
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15. Hypothesis of Super-Human Causality.
Ah! With their feet planted on this rudimentary logical
ground, they now inspect the mysteries of nature through an
inquisitive lens and suddenly become suspicious that per-
chance hidden humans cause these marvelous organic forces
to occur. They speculate: if we ourselves spark the flame, then
who specifically sparks the flame of lightning? They answer:
it must be a person like us, and if so, then that person must
necessarily also possess the power of causality by an order of
magnitude greater than our own. They declare: hidden su-
per-humans exist!
They extend their elemental line of reasoning—their law
of human causality—into the sphere of natural forces like the
weather and seasons, which unbeknownst to them is not an
effect of human causality at all at the time. Nevertheless, they
believe vehemently in this deep suspicion out of innocent ig-
norance because they have no other explanation.
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17. Psychology of Polytheism.
More has transpired cognitively in this series of events
than it may seem, and it merits the shrewdest analysis. Recall
the main definition of god by Anselm and Kant: the ideal of
pure reason; the personification of all potential; the highest
conceivable ideal. This notional creature is born innately by
the realm of intellect.
These earliest humans access the virgin ideal of a perfect
being first—idealization; then they project this ideal being
onto reality as a god—projection; split the whole being into
a plurality of individuated gods—pluralization; and assign
those many individuated gods as rulers of the many individ-
uated forces of nature—anthropomorphosis.
The cognition behind polytheism:
1. Idealization: conceive the highest possible being, i.e.,
ideal of pure reason, or god.
2. Projection: project the ideal onto reality, i.e., tran-
scendental error.
3. Pluralization: split the whole god into a multitude of
individuated gods, i.e., polytheism.
4. Anthropomorphosis: attribute the causality behind
natural forces to each individuated god.
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3. Anthropomorphosis: attribute the causality behind
nature to god.
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with one another… but we never shared our cornucopia of
abundance with the gods who provided the rich bounty to us
in the first place! How ignorant! Like ravenous thieves, we
plundered their gifts and saved none for them, so now they
avenge our evil. We have wrought this cruelty on ourselves.
Perhaps if we consistently sacrifice a share of our goods to
them, they will feel merciful and forgive us. Henceforth, we
will always tithe a portion of our goods to these super-beings
so as to preserve a happy healthy friendship… or else a mael-
strom of tragedy will befall us again!
That god births life? Then we shall sacrifice life back. We
hereby slay this virgin child and gift her blood as an act of
communion.
That god forges gold? Then we shall sacrifice gold back.
We hereby toss these coins into the river, so they flow to the
otherworld as recompense for our abundance.
That god herds animals? Then we shall sacrifice animals
back. We hereby hunt and smoke these carcasses as tribute.
So! The emergence of this insanely paranoid sacrificial
tradition filters its way down into the mundane life of the
tribespeople and permeates to the point where religious
dogma today enforces a meticulous code of tedious regula-
tions about how people dress, eat, socialize, labor, and
travel—all to avoid upsetting hidden super-beings.
On the main, their primitive line of reasoning in regard
to sacrificial worship will strike a contemporary person as ex-
cruciatingly stupid—this idea that humans owe compensa-
tion to an imaginary god. But their rationale makes sense rel-
ative to the extreme scarcity of knowledge at the time. Their
poor condition is called innocent ignorance.
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rigorous schedule of communal sacrifice? Thus the hierar-
chical class of priest—the intermediary between god and man
as the administrative secretary of sacrificial worship—rises to
prominence. Hence, rather than a whole clan fretting about
the complicated details of sacrifice, a few individuals devote
their entire lives to simplifying that singular duty for every-
one: to carry out sacrificial worship every season, weekend,
and holiday at the exact specific times required.
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once again. His eyes turn bloodshot, and his gut fills with
rage to avenge their shameless heresy.
Bloody holy wars erupt between neighboring tribes on
every continent over millennia, and some still ensue today.
Whole empires rise and fall under the backbreaking weight
of bitter ethnic conflict. Genocide becomes not just a norm, but
a necessity for the tribe to remain innocent under the constant
surveillance of their vengeful gods. Needless to mention,
other factors are involved in tribal warfare than religion alone,
such as territorial dispute, family blood feuds, etc.; nonethe-
less, the clash of faith steadily shovels heaps of coal into the
furnace of belligerence. Scarcely does religion ever silence a
battle drum. To the contrary, so-called holy men usually pace
the avant-garde before battle, to bless the warriors in their
combat, to anoint them soldiers of god—to reinforce their feel-
ing of bad conscience.
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This black-and-white rubric divides people into ally or
enemy with categorical distinction:
1. Friend: whoever faithfully worships the tribal gods.
2. Enemy: whoever does not faithfully worship the tribal
gods.
This absolutist, divisive attitude of you are either with us
or against us unites members of the tribe together—faith be-
ing the social glue, the common thread. For this reason, apos-
tasy is judged as a deviant crime in the eyes of the tribe. It
becomes a grave religious sin because to disavow the tribe
means to renounce the gods, an offense for which the deities
may retaliate viciously. Ergo, apostasy endangers everyone,
therefore the priests pass the strictest laws to prohibit heresy
and blasphemy.
But it worsens still: in judgement of the tribe, there re-
mains a crime so irredeemably evil, so unconscionably bad,
that many tribes personified it into an archetypal character of
its own, as a super-human figure on which they can attribute
the causality of evil itself.
The Devil.
To a tribe, the worst conceivable taboo is to not only
apostatize, but to then fight against them too. That is, to be-
come an adversarial apostate—a traitor. One who not just dis-
avows the tribe and renounces the gods, but who worships
new gods with a new tribe and accuses the former tribe of
evilly worshiping false idols.
The ancient Greeks coined a word for this precise trea-
son: diaballein. It means to throw across, to travel from one
side to another and eventually became a figure of speech as in
to betray and accuse. Diaballein simplified to diabolos as a
name for traitors and accusers, which turned into diabolus in
Latin, then diavolo in Italian, teufel in German, and now
devil in English.
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The Devil embodies the worst malevolence from the per-
spective of the tribe, the most devious social taboo, namely
adversarial apostasy. The tribespeople attribute anthropo-
morphic causality to this villain with the same passion by
which they attribute causality to their ethnic deities. Any
time a person apostatizes the tribe or blasphemes the gods,
they blame The Devil for it; they claim that Satan the Ad-
versary possessed or tempted the heretic to do so!
Due to this long tradition of violent antagonism toward
deviant heretics, members of contemporary society still tend
to feel suspicion and enmity toward weird individuals who
defy cultural norms. Perhaps part of their psyche still worries
about that eccentricity. As such, the spirit of The Devil will
endure insofar as The Tribe feels threatened by The Individ-
ual.
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7. Homicide: employ judicial authority to sentence
apostates and heretics to death for endangering the
tribe, e.g., Christian Inquisition.
8. Psychopathization: psychopaths identify the priest-
hood as a way to enact violent impulses under the
guaranteed safety of class privilege. Generations of
cumulative psychosis in the priesthood breed the
shrewdest specie of psychopath, i.e., vampires dis-
guised as holy men.
9. Genocide: deploy martial forces against neighboring
tribes to annihilate heretical worship of false idols;
interminable holy wars ensue globally, e.g., Islamic
Jihad.
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deadly venom. From ancient tribal chieftain clans to medieval
imperial monarchical houses to contemporary democratic
presidential dynasties—the State breeds the sharpest specie
of psychopath known to humankind—perhaps deadlier than
the Church?
For this reason, a nominally secular government that in-
sists on the separation of Church and State remains as vul-
nerable to this sort of psychopathic pervasion as the religious
priesthood. Do not for a moment place full faith in any
Church or State, so long as it wields the authority to inflict vio-
lence or censorship upon intellectual dissidents. The political
might to deploy brute force always has been, and always will
be, admired and administered by the most sophisticated psy-
chopaths in the human species. They cannot wait to get their
greasy palms on the red nuclear button, so to speak.
Oh! But what about a democratic state? How could it
possibly breed psychopathy if the citizenry elects the legisla-
tors? Nothing has changed; as previously explained, the un-
derclass of citizenry consists of genetic masochists. Thus the
election is nothing more than a fanciful way for the under-
class of slaves to vote for their own masters. Regardless of the
candidate, the underclass remains lowly.
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My! To find value in life itself… without the distraction
of hidden gods, without the waste of sacrifice, without deg-
radation by the priesthood, without war, without the social
division…. to just enjoy life!
The antidote to remedy the poison, the formula to crack
the code, the Latin slogan to herald this new era:
Amor vitae! Love of life!
With real life as the ontological springboard for morality,
then three simple words summarize the secular ethic:
Bonum vitae est! Life is good!
In the sphere of morality, who can declare a higher prin-
ciple? So intuitively known, so naturally right, so undeniably
sublime; what convoluted nihilistic pseudo-logic dare try to
refute it? If existence stands as the grounds for knowledge,
and life amounts to the height of existence, then it morally
follows that life is the highest good.
The Christian philosopher, Kierkegaard, actually sires
existentialism and subsequently secularism with his renegade
premise:
I reason from existence, not towards existence.
His quotation signifies that he does not look to a god nor
otherworldliness to explain life, but rather he observes exist-
ence itself for insight into life.
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33. Terms of a Social Contract.
As if forged out of the purest gold the earth’s crust could
muster, this cosmic maxim—love life—becomes the most
precious legal tender of the species. In the form of a mutual,
consensual social contract: love one another. This three-word
code of conduct forms the necessary foundation for a peace-
ful, durable society; one which preserves the integrity of each
and every individual.
Moreover, in order for this social contract to qualify in
fact as a valid ethical contract—it cannot bind nonconsenting
individuals by force of arms. In other words, this covenant
needs to remain one hundred percent consensual, whereby
individuals pledge voluntarily to join the community by their
own volition. And for recourse, as soon as any individual vi-
olates the peace treaty—that is, they harm life—the society
ostracizes and shuns them universally. The moment a crimi-
nal knowingly harms a fellow human, the rest of society turns
their back on that evildoer immediately; all their relationships
are terminated as fast as news of their evil can circulate virally:
family, friendships, sexual partners, and trade partners tum-
ble like dominoes. Through social ostracism, the criminal
loses all access to the economy—they cannot shop at the gro-
cery, cannot have their car repaired, cannot see a doctor. By
their own violation of the social contract, they exile themselves
into oblivion.
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35. Afterword.
Does religion deserve scorn? Yes, it does categorically in
its current condition of willful evil and ignorance. The reader
must recall that religion does not need to exist anymore, and
thus the tragic violence that it incites at present occurs totally
in vain. Both holy war and religious bigotry break the social
contract because they violate the maxim to love life. Ergo, re-
ligious adherents ethically deserve ostracism from society to
preserve the peace of everyone else. In a primitive stage of
humanity, theism and faith arose as a necessary way for tribes
to rationalize the forces of nature. Religion probably aided
those earliest humans, nonetheless it has become extremely
toxic now because it is a false hypothesis that vicious psycho-
paths cite to justify their genocide and oppression.
New battles. After Buddha was dead, they still showed
his shadow in a cave for centuries—a tremendous, grue-
some shadow. God is dead; but given the way people are,
there may still for millennia be caves in which they show
his shadow. And we—we must still defeat his shadow as
well!
—Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, aph.108 •
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Apocalypse
THE DEATH OF GOD
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37. Earliest Assassins.
The Presocratic atheists killed god over 2,500 years ago
in ancient Greece. Unlike the precise logicians of today, these
earliest freethinkers wielded neither scalpels nor blades, but
rather bone clubs and stone hammers to smash bad ideas.
The notion of god plainly offended their common sense; it
struck many of them as glaringly absurd—they viewed it as
bad taste to indulge in the gross religious sacraments of their
day.
Concerning the gods, I have no means of knowing
whether they exist or not, nor of what sort they may be,
because of the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of
human life.
—Protagoras, 490–420 BC
The gods of popular belief do not exist [...] but primitive
man, out of admiration, deifed the fruits of the earth and
virtually everything that contributed to his existence.
—Prodicus, 465–395 BC
This universe [...] has not been made by any god or man
[...] They pray to images [...] for they do not know what
gods and heroes are. […] Their processions and their
phallic hymns would be disgraceful exhibitions were it
not that they were done in honor of Dionysus [...] When
defiled they purify themselves with blood, as though one
who had stepped into filth were to wash himself with
filth. If any of his fellowmen should perceive him acting
in such a way, they would regard him as mad.
—Heraclitus, 535–475 BC
38. Zombie Sadist.
Despite the death of god millennia ago, his undead corpse
still shambles around the earth, leaving bigotry and genocide
behind in its footprint. This zombie being has been mutilated,
stabbed and chopped in virtually every way, and in spite of
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this relentless onslaught, it survives unnervingly in the heart
of man. To this point, atheists can speculate that in the event
they do decapitate the god-zombie once and for all, it will pro-
ceed then to haunt the world as a ghost. In other words, it
remains quite possible that the god-delusion will never go ex-
tinct in total.
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imperialistically conquer civilizations that do not worship
their god. They seek to install a global empire by necessity.
Likely the reader sniffs out the putrid stink of Jihadism
because the militant Islamic movement, the Islamic State,
rears the ugliest head and shrieks the loudest at present. In
truth the absolutism required for religious faith underlies all
religion in essence—the Islamic State simply embodies it most
honestly, most nakedly, most romantically. By stripping off
the veil of political correctness to reveal their fully nude am-
bition—nothing less than a terrestrial empire—Isis relishes
its freedom to heroize martyrdom. They declare spiritedly:
we will kill every infidel to install the kingdom of Allah on
this planet. Die for this cause and become an eternal hero!
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falls under the category of human pollution, a living breath-
ing cancer who infects the health of their god’s perfectly con-
ceived creation.
A genuine theist sees every unbeliever as an affront, as a
danger that threatens to tilt the weighted world off its axis
into a death spiral.
Herein the elementary logic of jihadism:
1. God is a perfect being.
2. God created the world.
3. Thus the world is a perfect creation.
4. But the anomaly of disbelief suggests imperfection in
the world, and thus threatens the perfection of god.
5. The theist must extinguish the threat of imperfection
to defend the perfection of god.
The author will replace the religious terms god and theist
with the secular terms idealism and idealist for a more
grounded comprehension.
The elementary logic of idealism:
1. The ideal exists.
2. The ideal is perfect.
3. Any disbelief in the ideal suggests imperfection, and
thus threatens the perfection of the ideal.
4. The idealist must extinguish the threat of imperfec-
tion to defend the perfection of the ideal.
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politics being two of those facades, and the manifestation of
its force as statism.
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As an example, a republic enforces its own definitive
ideal, its religion. It specifically places faith in the absolute
notion that the supreme way to rule a society is through a
political procedure whereby citizenry elect intermediaries to
legislate on their behalf. Its worship occurs in the manner of
taxation, the forced sacrifice of personal resources to the
ideal. Its community consists of patriotic citizenry who wave
tricolored flags, sing anthems, and reverently place their
hands over their hearts.
• Theistic religion = ideal + faith + sacrifice + commu-
nity
• Secular religion = ideal + faith + taxation + citizenry
Dear reader, it does not matter whether the State politi-
cally enforces a theistic, mystical, or secular ideal, whether
Islamic law, Buddhist law, or Democratic law, it still enforces
a religion, an ideal—a belief in an absolute idea: that Allah
exists, or that life is suffering, or that populism is fair. Dein-
doctrinate the falsehood that religion and politics are oppo-
sites, when in fact, they need each other.
Religion characterizes the Ideal. Politics characterizes the
State. The State enforces the Ideal, thus Politics enforces the Reli-
gion.
It may feel weird to view a secular ideal like democratic
socialism or republican nationalism as a religion since it does
not expound belief in a mythical deity on the surface; none-
theless, it still holds faith in an absolute ideal. This painstak-
ing clarification will strike a fool as convoluted or tedious, but
its importance cannot be overemphasized.
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human species blindly worships Statist Idealism in its smor-
gasbord of incarnations across the globe. Almost nobody
identifies as an antitheist, anti-statist, or anti-idealist explic-
itly.
What explains the heavy prevalence of this psychic ill-
ness? Quite simply: religious idealism and its accompanied
political statism has been, and continues to be, bred into the
genetics of humanity generation after generation. Humans
are born into its dogma and indoctrinated thoroughly in
childhood.
To answer the question succinctly: inbred brainwashing.
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Perhaps deindoctrinate idealism itself. Would this re-
code genetics, mutate blood cells, reshape a fingerprint?
Would the human undergo rebirth into a free spirit like a
snake with a new skin or a bird with new feathers? Would
the face of man change?
We cannot radically heal any evil within an organism
unless we submit the entire organism to new laws of life.
You ask: “But then what do you want? Can you proclaim
for us a form of life which will be more suitable to freedom
after the perishing of the institutions of the state? [...] Do
you offer us any other prospect besides anarchy, murder,
and robbery? Show us a free, safe form of life and we
would gladly agree with you.”
To this I respond quite simply that it is not our business
to construct. Indeed, can any new crop sprout up as long
as the old weeds thrive luxuriantly? Thus you must first
exterminate the old weeds. [...] Do you know that you
are like a group of PhDs who believe that we want to
give the people a philosophy with propositions, conclu-
sions, and concepts? Nonsense! In any case, our philoso-
phy exists only for the purpose of clearing away the tra-
ditional ideas of belief from human heads; thus, just at
first, we can do nothing further than to criticize political
forms, political concepts, and the religio-political trust,
and to be satisfied if our critique is accurate and if it has
proven that it is a contradiction to want to win freedom
within the context of existing forms. Then in spite of all
that, everyone and his brother may come and say: “But
my God, there must be religion, there must be a state,
there must be righteousness, there must be law.” This out-
cry does not bother us since it proceeds against critique out
of fear, out of the presuppositions of faithfulness [...] these
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people are just naturally deaf to deductive arguments for
a rational freedom.
Therefore, you ask me what “the free community” is,
what it looks like, how it is possible. To that I can give
you no answer, for who is permitted to think beyond his
own time? Our time, though, is only critical and destruc-
tive.
We set ourselves directly against our determined institu-
tions because the spirit of non-freedom manifests itself in
them. We do not bear ill will toward kings, but toward
kingship; strip this man of the glitter of the throne, and
he will be harmless.
—Edgar Bauer, Critique’s Quarrel With Church & State
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In this tragically decadent world, with its shallow culture
filled to the brim and spilling over the sides with masochists
of every stripe, all of whom sacrifice blood and bone on the
altar of idealism, the antitheist must be suicidal at the least, as
the preliminary prerequisite. Do not risk this apocalyptic disil-
lusionment unless one can afford to become an unseen ghost
who passes through the walls of society. Food feels cumber-
some, sex feels like a chore, and one’s own skin feels like it
cuts off circulation. To strip off the veil of god—and god here
encompasses all absolutist ideology—exposes the fraudulence
of everything. Suddenly everything feels like a pebble in a
shoe because it is all so depressingly unnecessary. When you
murder god, a nuclear winter ensues, and by the looks of so-
ciety that arctic darkness may never lift.
48. Theogony.
If humans conceived god and then they abort god, what
does that say about god? Better still: what does it say about
humans?
Does not the capacity to birth a god rank them above
divine?
The flip-side: if humans conceived god and then believed
that god created them in reverse, what does that say about
humans?
Does not a parent who believes their own child gave birth
to them rank below an animal? Even a worm knows its own
eggs.
I teach you the Übermensch. Man is something that shall
be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? […]
You have made your way from worm to man, and much
within you is still worm. […] Even the wisest among
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you is still a hybrid of plant and ghost. But do I bid you
become ghosts or plants? […]
Man is a rope stretched between animal and the Über-
mensch—a rope over an abyss. […] What is great in man
is that he is a bridge, and not a goal...
—Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, aph.3,4
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away the romantic pomp and circumstance, religious litera-
ture is nothing but the longest and biggest collaborative co-
authorship project between billions of people in history; a
global human undertaking that has weaved together the most
elaborate fan fiction for a single character ever.
All recorded civilizations—repeat: all recorded civiliza-
tions—have re-imagined this same god-character in their
own mythical or mystical fashion, often deifying and diabo-
lizing names and personas from one another. And yet despite
this monolithic tradition over millennia, nobody has con-
firmed in any conclusive way that the being exists for real;
everybody just sort of took everybody else’s word for it as if it
did not matter.
In a certain sense, the god-hypothesis does not need to
be disproven because it has never been proven. Due to this, any
time an atheist does charity to dismantle the falsity of divin-
ity, they deserve acknowledgement for their generosity.
Yes—the reader read that right. When an atheist exor-
cises the ghost of god back to the void, they do so charitably.
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in reality lies in the rigor mortis of a lifeless body—it has no
functions, no processes, it becomes static.
God cannot be alive because life requires constant
change. God could only assume form in reality as a corpse.
Technically, even a dead body decays and mutates, but the
premise stands. When a theologian defines god as perfect be-
ing, he unwittingly declares the death of god. When a theist
claims god to be alive, he unknowingly classifies god as the
living dead.
The amusing absurdity of theology: god as an undead
zombie.
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variant degrees. In the latter circumstance, moral pessimism
becomes the rule—the cosmos itself becomes evil mainly.
The traditional theist defines god as a perfectly moral be-
ing who created the cosmos. If that flawless entity failed to
infuse morality into its creation, then it cannot be flawless,
ergo god does not exist. If that flawless entity did infuse mo-
rality into its creation, then that entity qualifies as evil be-
cause it victimizes innocent people with a serial frequency.
Children born into slavery in the Middle East? Half of Eu-
rope decimated by the Black Plague? Malaria slaughters en-
tire tribes in Africa like a vicious ghost army every year.
So which does the reader prefer: no god and no cosmic
morality or a merciless god with the ethics of a serial killer?
God as horror movie villain? God as Freddy Krueger?
The monk screams: wait, wait! A perfectly moral god ex-
ists, but he granted everyone a soul with free will. Now god
snuggles on a couch in apathetic bliss whilst cherubs feed him
grapes in heaven.
Oh, sad little monk, one cannot hate you for trying. But
god still qualifies as evil in that absurd scenario. He still cre-
ated a cosmos where natural disaster devastates whole popu-
lations all the time, regardless of individual free will—if that
even exists. On the main, the deity’s creation generally
plagues human life with no rhyme or reason.
Did the infant born with AIDs inflict that upon herself
through her free will? An earthquake in Haiti terminated
316,000 innocent men, women, and children in 2010. Did
their free will cause that brutal natural disaster?
At what point does the theist acknowledge that fate can
impose devastation upon innocent people because the universe
has no innate morality to moderate it?
If god exists, the heinous monster deserves nothing less
than an Inquisition-style torture and death.
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54. Aesthetics: God as Frankenstein.
Golden halos, lighthearted angels, billowy clouds, flow-
ing white robes… Renaissance painters depicted their mo-
nistic god in the loftiest, most beautiful aesthetic they could
imagine. Or, perhaps a contemporary New Age motif of pan-
theism… photos of spiral galaxies and rainbow nebulae. Or,
maybe a Wiccan polytheistic portrayal of the goddess… a
nude, innocently sexual woman with long red hair seated on
a giant mushroom in a serene meadow; she has befriended
the morning songbird and evening firefly; baby deer bring her
fresh fruit in the afternoon. So darling! So adorable! So
lovely! So… boring.
Artists tends to characterize their god according to what
they consider the quintessence of cleanliness and health.
Does anybody find it peculiar that theists never depict their
god as a filthy, cancerous troll—one who eats shit, and lives
amongst the jackals?
If god is defined as the being of perfect beauty and health
whom created the cosmos, then why does ugliness and illness
exist? Did this flawless being forget to infuse humanity with
perfect health too, the way it failed with morality?
The New Ager screams: oh, oh, oh! Wait! Humans pos-
sess immortality, but simply have not unlocked it yet. If only
everybody ate ten bananas, five apples, and three plates of
tofu every day, the species would live forever.
To which the author retorts: every single human being
who has ever lived has also died. Do not talk about immor-
tality when death has a statistical rate of 100 percent cer-
tainty!
If god created man in his own image—as a reflection of
itself—and man suffers deformity, illness, sickness, retarda-
tion and death, then must not god look like a shit-eating
troll? A mishmash of odds and ends stitched together into a
freak? God as Frankenstein?
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55. The Apocalypse.
All ridicule of god aside, the death of faith in this non-
entity does not merely entail the death of the god-character
per se. It demolishes the earthly foundation on which all ide-
ology stands. When god collapses dead into his own foot-
print, it sends shockwaves across the soul of humankind. It
detonates a veritable armageddon of the psyche; one which be-
tides the Age of Nihilism with a nuclear winter of the intellect
at a magnitude unexperienced in the species’ history.
Quite literally, the English lexicon does not possess the
necessary terminology to define the substance and scope of
this global ideological cataclysm. For the death of god de-
notes the death of idealism in mankind. The most toxic intel-
lectual venom caused mankind to fall into a coma over ten
thousand years ago. Who can possibly prognosticate what
illness and madness will ensue when he finally opens his eyes
and sees reality for the first time, moreover, when it dawns
on him how much evil he committed in his stupor? His ocean
of tears would drown the earth. •
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Nihilism
FALLOUT IN THE ABYSS
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Expendable waste. Cosmically worthless.
When a carpenter demolishes a house, what does he care
about the termites nested in the walls? Perhaps he tears the
building down because of the termites. In parallel, if a deity
erects and then annihilates the Milky Way, perhaps it does
that because it hates the humans, and sees them as termites
in the walls of his house?
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The fairest universe is a but a heap of rubbish piled up at
random.
—Heraclitus, Fragment 40
Human beings invented a plastic, pliable concept called
value in order to give their own lives meaning as a way to feel
important or necessary or above nature. In reality, to the
99.999 percent remainder of the cosmos, value has no con-
cept, no place, no role. The universe does not need valua-
tion—it does not need morality—in order to act cleanly and
precisely.
Donkeys would prefer straw to gold.
—Heraclitus, Fragment 102
59. Predicament.
The author poses this predicament. Which of the follow-
ing seems more reasonable?
• Amorality: the universe does not possess an implicit,
absolute morality, and thus the obliteration of the
Milky Way means nothing ultimately.
• Morality: the universe possesses an implicit, absolute
morality, and thus the obliteration of humanity’s
home galaxy qualifies as evil, and means pessimism
ultimately.
There can be no two ways about it! The cosmos either
exists amorally or morally. It is either devoid of moral valua-
tion or highlighted by one. The mathematical certainty of a
galactic collision demands much-needed soul-searching,
even if the reader will never witness it personally.
It begs the question: how could such an abject holocaust
take place in a supposedly noble world of moral justice?
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60. Nietzsche Contra Kant.
The shrewd but flawed modern philosopher Immanuel
Kant would deny the premise of this predicament. He de-
clared that morality can only exist amongst rational entities
who have free will, e.g., humans. Ergo, one cannot assign a
moral judgement to natural catastrophes. This definition of
morality sounds logical on the surface and reigned for a cen-
tury, but it crumbled under the mightiest hammer blows of
the next era.
Kant elucidated it thus:
What else, then, can freedom of the will be but autonomy,
i.e., the property that the will has of being a law to itself
[...] the principle of acting according to no other maxim
than that which can at the same time have itself as the
universal law for its object. Now this is precisely the for-
mula for the categorical imperative and is the principle
of morality. Thus a free will and a will subject to moral
laws are one and the same.
For inasmuch as morality serves as a law for us only in-
sofar as we are rational beings, it must also be valid for
all rational beings. And since morality must be derived
solely from the property of freedom [...] the property of the
will of all rational beings.
—Immanuel Kant, Metaphysics of Moral, s.447-8
Kant’s postmodern progeny, Friedrich Nietzsche, would
turn back and tear his predecessor’s premise in half, and em-
ploy the first part as grounds for his own adversarial theory.
He insisted that humans of course categorize as rational be-
ings, but that Kant failed to prove that his perfect, absolute
condition known as freedom of will exists at all.
Moreover, the fact that humans exist as rational beings
only supports the conclusion that early humans originated
morality in the first place, ergo its theoretical values remain a
matter of perspective between each individual human. In
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other words, Nietzsche apprehends Kant on the deceptive
maneuver in which he manufactured an absolute freedom in
order to justify his second absolute of cosmic morality. This
line in the sand between Nietzsche and Kant exhibits the
eternal dispute in morality between perspectivism and absolut-
ism.
Not only would Nietzsche lick his chops at the afore-
mentioned predicament between amorality and morality as
dictated by the impending collision between galaxies, but he
unveiled a strikingly similar theme in one of the most beau-
tifully unnerving literary passages he ever penned:
In some remote corner of the sprawling universe, twin-
kling among the countless solar systems, there was once a
star on which some clever animals invented knowledge.
It was the most arrogant, most mendacious minute in
world history, but it was only a minute. After nature
caught its breath a little, the star froze, and the clever
animals had to die. And it was time, too: for although
they boasted of how much they had come to know, in the
end they realized they had gotten it all wrong. They died
and in dying cursed truth. Such was the species of doubt-
ing animal that had invented knowledge.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Pathos of Truth
If the cosmos contains an implicit absolute morality en-
coded into its fiber, and if natural occurrences terminate life
frequently, then the cosmos itself qualifies as evil because it
violates its own morality. Kant tried to devise a fire exit to
escape out of this logical trap when he assigned morality to
beings with free will only. Freedom measures as an absolute,
i.e., it cannot have half-measures, a person cannot be half-
free. Hence, the terms absolute and perfect mean the same
thing—purity or flawlessness. Therefore, Kant foolishly as-
signed morality to rational beings who have perfect will under
his definition. A being with perfect will cannot have a mo-
rality because it can only ever think and act perfectly anyway.
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This tautology in Kantian morality implodes his theory, like
a long train that speeds around a short circular track and
eventually crashes into its own caboose. Good try though,
Immanuel!
Freedom refers to an absolute or flawless condition, and
flawlessness pertains only to a perfect being, ergo only a per-
fect being can possess truly free will. Incidentally, this syllo-
gism not only ruptures the Kantian delusion of absolute mo-
rality, but it bursts the traditional idea of free will alto-
gether—by the by, it demolishes the antithetical notion of
determinism also, which merely commits the exact same per-
fection fallacy of free will but on the flip-side. In summary,
both the thesis of free will and its antithesis of determinism
classify as absurdly irrational—because they require absolute
qualities.
62. Hellraisers.
Perhaps the secret to life lies in an alternate viewpoint
altogether. Rather than injecting anesthesia to numb away
the storm… chase after the storm. Does this not turn fate
around against itself? Become one of the courageous few who
raises storms. Descend into the brimstone mine of hell and
summon its devils to conspire on earth!
So many become disoriented in the fluffy cotton ball
clouds of celestial idealism, when in reality only a hellraiser
can ever undermine the terrain and cope with the sticks and
stones of life.
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fact, its toxic fumes have already crept in through every win-
dow, every chimney, every cellar door, and infected all resi-
dents.
Dear reader, like fungus in the wooden beams of a house,
nihilism has thoroughly decayed the lofty columns of human
culture—and it will accelerate furiously into a frenzied mael-
strom of suicidal cannibalism. How else does one define ni-
hilism if not suicide and cannibalism?
Nihilists kill themselves and eat their own.
65. Annihilism.
What does Nihilism mean? That the highest values are
losing their value. […] Every purely moral valuation
terminates in Nihilism.
—Nietzsche, Ibid, aph.2,19
For a formal definition: nihilism refers to the last stage of
an irrational ideology where it annihilates itself; when its own
meaning becomes meaningless; when its values reach their
absurd conclusion and thereby cause its demise; an intellec-
tual regression ensues; the ideology commits suicide by virtue
of its own asinine absolutism; the body develops cancer which
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kills the body. As such, the author has coined the term anni-
hilism to clarify its meaning in a tongue-in-cheek way.
There finally arises a certain self-annihilation, an an-
tagonistic attitude toward itself. […] The nihilistic con-
sequences [...] where all principles at length become
tainted with the atmosphere of the platform.
—Nietzsche, Ibid, A Plan
Two religious movements on planet Earth at this current
moment epitomize nihilism in its maximal glory, both of
which the author enumerated previously. This pair stands out
because they each embody one of the two flavors or varieties
of nihilism:
1. Theistic
2. Secular
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munist who hurls a Molotov cocktail through a factory win-
dow or the angry protestors who flip over cop cars, or the
environmentalists who chain themselves to evergreen trees
but who believes that people can become so passionate about
an ideology that they literally kill themselves in order to kill
intellectual deviants? The Islamic State—the most ruthlessly
terroristic political entity in Islam and the quintessence of hy-
per-nihilism—releases a glossy digital magazine called
Dabiq, which they circulate globally to fan the flame of jihad
in the hearts of believers. In the most recent Issue 15 of this
horror-novel-of-a-periodical entitled Break the Cross, they
feature an acidic article aggressively called “Why We Hate
You & Why We Fight You.” The anonymous author cites
their six worst grievances with Western culture as the explicit
reasons for why they strive tirelessly to exterminate infidels.
As an amusing aside, they do not care about the conventional
left-right divide in Western politics. They despise both lib-
erals and conservatives, referring to secularists as the “atheist
fringe” and Christians as “pagan devils.” They see the whole
spectrum from left to right as irredeemably malevolent.
Herein an abridged version of critical passages from their
grievances:
1. We hate you, first and foremost, because you are disbe-
lievers; you reject the oneness of Allah [...] you blaspheme
against Him [...] you fabricate lies against His prophets
and messengers, and you indulge in all manner of devil-
ish practices. It is for this reason that we were com-
manded to openly declare our hatred for you and our en-
mity towards you.
These insane nihilists need not clarify any further. Faith-
fully in the fashion of an absolutist ideology, they identify
disbelief, heresy, and apostasy as the topmost evil that any
human can commit. Defection and deviation cannot exist in
an absolutist world because it evidences imperfection, which
ruins the absolute like chocolate stains on a dry cleaned shirt.
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2. We hate you because your secular, liberal societies per-
mit the very things that Allah has prohibited [...] you
separate between religion and state, thereby granting su-
preme authority to your whims and desires via the legis-
lators you vote into power. In doing so, you desire to rob
Allah of His right to be obeyed and you wish to usurp that
right for yourselves. […] Your secular liberalism has led
you to tolerate and even support “gay rights,” to allow
alcohol, drugs, fornication, gambling, and usury to be-
come widespread, and to encourage the people to mock
those who denounce these filthy sins and vices. As such,
we wage war against you to stop you from spreading your
disbelief and debauchery—your secularism and nation-
alism, your perverted liberal values, your Christianity
and atheism—and all the depravity and corruption they
entail. You’ve made it your mission to “liberate” Muslim
societies; we’ve made it our mission to fight off your in-
fluence and protect mankind from your misguided con-
cepts and your deviant way of life.
In the above quotation, the Islamic theocratists criticize
secular democracy and accuse all secularists, nationalists,
Christians, and atheists of sacrilege and profanity.
3. In the case of the atheist fringe, we hate you and wage
war against you because you disbelieve in the existence of
your Lord and Creator.
The only conceivable sin worse than disbelief in the brain
of a jihadist would be for a person to become their own god.
4. We hate you for your crimes against Islam and wage
war against you to punish you for your transgressions
against our religion. As long as your subjects continue to
mock our faith, insult the prophets of Allah [...] burn the
Quran, and openly vilify the laws of the Shari’ah, we
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will continue to retaliate, not with slogans and placards,
but with bullets and knives.
The Islamic radical makes it abundantly clear what he
means in this passage; no commentary needed.
5. We hate you for your crimes against the Muslims; your
drones and fighter jets bomb, kill, and maim our people
around the world, and your puppets in the usurped lands
of the Muslims oppress, torture, and wage war against
anyone who calls to the truth. As such, we fight you to
stop you from killing our men, women and children, to
liberate those of them whom you imprison and torture
and to take revenge for the countless Muslims who’ve suf-
fered as a result of your deeds.
6. We hate you for invading our lands and fight you to
repel you and drive you out. As long as there is an inch of
territory left for us to reclaim, jihad will continue to be a
personal obligation on every single Muslim.
The religious radical conflates defensive Western inter-
ventionism against terroristic Jihadist imperialism as an at-
tack on their theocratic society.
In total, the Islamic State categorizes every single act or
idea that violates Quranic dogma and Shariah law as a mali-
cious offense against their god Allah, even if the sinner lives
on a remote island and has never heard of Islam. This gro-
tesque magazine, Dabiq, furnishes the bare naked worldview
of theistic nihilism as it exists in real time right now.
They must enforce and preserve their fictional, idealistic,
absolutist religion at all costs, including the loss of their own
lives—hence, suicidal homicide. As if the watermark of
atrocity could rise no higher, the Islamic State has rolled out
its newest program, Cubs of the Caliphate, where they en-
courage brainwashed children to suicide bomb for them.
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The reader will recall that nihilism denotes the condition
whereby an ideology regresses upon itself; its meaning be-
comes meaningless; when the logical extreme of the values
invalidates the original values themselves; a dog chases its tail
and bites its own ass; ouroboros; suicide; intellectual canni-
balism.
Islamic hyper-nihilism highlighted: the religion of peace
forces its children to commit suicidal homicide.
Unrhetorical questions: can a human ideology become
more absurd? How does a rational person cope with the real-
ity of such evil? What does the mainstream popularity of this
religion—and any religion for that matter—say about hu-
manity in essence?
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The time is coming when we shall have to pay for having
been Christians for two thousand years: we are losing the
equilibrium which enables us to live.
—Nietzsche, Ibid, aph.30
Timothy revises: The time is coming when we shall have
to pay for having been religious since prehistory!
The curse has been cast. The fate has been sealed. The
dice have been rolled. The atomic bomb has been dropped.
The soul of man is doomed for the foreseeable future. An
unprecedented catastrophic nuclear accident befell Cherno-
byl, Ukraine in 1986; scientists estimate it will remain unin-
habitable for the next 20,000 years—an untouchable malig-
nant tumor on the face of earth! For how long will the human
psyche bear the radioactive contamination of its own hyper-
nihilistic fallout? No greater line of inquiry exists!
The Somali Democratic Republic, aka Somalia, col-
lapsed under the strife of a bitter civil war in the 1990s. In
the vacuum of this failed tyrannical state, a brutal dystopia
ensued by necessity. The helpless residents inflicted every im-
aginable kind of grisly atrocity on one another. This historical
specimen illustrates the sort of fallout that transpires in the
post-nihilistic wasteland—although this event particularly
involved only one tiny marginal nation in the brief span of
decades, whereas the forthcoming mega-fallout will involve
the most deeply entrenched super-ideologies that have ossi-
fied worldwide over the entire course of human history, e.g.,
religious thought itself.
Virtually all major earthly ideologies have entered the ni-
hilistic stage in various degrees at the same time, and they all
converge to form an inescapable psychic black hole right now.
The only shelter lies in the abyss of one’s own head. Every
single human being from now into the future will experience
fallout in the abyss.
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69. Joyful Pessimism.
Our Pessimism: the world has not the value which we
believed it to have […] In the first place, it seems of less
value: at first it is felt to be of less value—only in this
sense are we pessimists—that is to say, with the will to
acknowledge this transvaluation without reserve, and no
longer, as heretofore, to deceive ourselves and chant the
old old story.
It is precisely in this way that we find the pathos which
urges us to seek for new values.
—Nietzsche, Ibid, aph.32
Pessimism! This spookiest of judgements—society tries
to drum it out of children like a blacksmith tempers a lump
out of steel. On the main, a pessimist judges the world as
fundamentally irrational and anathema to their own moral
valuation. Is not every fair person a pessimist to some extent?
For a lucid thinker, should not pessimism remain the default
position unless proven otherwise, especially in retrospect of
human history. One can scarcely spy glimmers of human fra-
ternity and ingenuity for more than but the briefest of in-
stances, as if any time the light bulb above a human head lit
with a great idea, the tribe smashed it with a hammer to con-
serve ideology.
The author poses this conundrum for optimists: the cru-
elest of tragedy befalls innocent people every day, which dis-
proves the hypothesis of cosmic justice.
Ah, but the grandest fortune can also strike innocent
people!—the optimist hollers gleefully.
But does that not only further disprove cosmic justice?
Whether the fate be tragic or fortunate, it does not dis-
criminate between just and unjust people. If the tidings of
fate, for better or worse, do not proportionately reflect a per-
son’s moral record, then why should anyone care about mo-
rality in the first place?
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What is the point?
Now the reader recognizes why dear brother Nietzsche
excoriated morality as a psychological gimmick that humans
invented to feel special in the universe; it provides a narrative
of belief that the cosmos or the gods or karma owes them a
noble fate so they tiptoe around cracks on the sidewalk to
avoid bad luck.
Why do children born into the Islamic State, who die as
teenage suicide bombers, warrant that inhumane fate? Did
they deserve that? Ah, they must have a bad karmic record
from a past life!—condemns the orthodox Hindu.
Cosmic morality is the most ignoble superstition.
Personal morality is the most noble reality.
Anyone who enjoys the freedom of their own personal
moral valuation cannot be anything other than a joyful pessi-
mist in a world full of nihilists! •
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The Abyss
THE LAST LIBERATION
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pass the data to do so in the first place? From whence does the
chain of causality originate?
The Fool shouts: a consciousness!
Socrates: where is a consciousness located exactly?
The Fool wagers again: the brain!
Socrates: so if a surgeon opens a brain, he will uncover a
consciousness embedded inside it like a pearl in a clamshell?
The Fool becomes flustered: no, I suppose not. But
maybe he will find it on the astral plane, the world behind
this world, and if not in the astral, then the world behind that
one!
Socrates: so if an astral traveler scours their own astral
body, they will find a consciousness inlaid there like a butter-
fly caught in a net?
The Fool resigns: no, I guess not... I give up. Tell me
then, relentless gadfly, where does the soul exist?
Socrates: what if a consciousness is nothing more than
the deception of a self-aware reality? What if the soul does not
exist in any real way, but rather makes up the last illusion that
a fool must abandon to enter the Abyss? What if apostasy
from the religion of consciousness comprises the last libera-
tion.
The Fool wails desperately: oh no, Socrates, please do
not expound such heresy. The other fools will call you mad,
and exile you into the wilderness. Where would you live?
Socrates: where else does The Devil live, if not the
Abyss? •
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Glossary
ABYSS: anti-ideal of unbeing and unreality.
AESTHETICS: study of the valuation of form.
BEING: cosmic presence.
EPISTEMOLOGY: study of the valuation of knowledge.
EXISTENCE: essence of cosmic being.
EXISTENTIALISM: secular movement of philosophy that
views life and being as the grounds for epistemology, moral-
ity, and aesthetics in contrast to idealism or religion.
GOD: a hypothetical kind of being that contains perfect qual-
ities, perfect form, and perfect presence; the trifecta of ideal-
ism; idealism to the third power.
IDEALISM: faith in absolute or perfect qualities of being.
IDEALITY: realm of ideas; term coined by author, tradition-
ally called the realm of understanding or intellect.
MORALITY: study of the valuation of virtue.
MYSTICISM: religious tradition that qualifies life as suffering
and denies identity with the self through radical asceticism; a
kind of pessimistic nihilism.
NIHILISM: condition where the values of an ideology regress
upon themselves and the ideology becomes absurd; definition
conceived by author.
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ONTOLOGY: study of the qualities of being.
PESSIMISM: worldview that valuates existence as mainly ir-
rational, evil, and ugly.
PHILOSOPHY: study of the qualities of being, with three
main branches that study valuations of epistemology, moral-
ity, and aesthetics.
REALITY: realm of empirical phenomena.
RELIGION: faith in and worship of a god or gods, often with
a community under the authority of a priesthood.
THEOGONY: speculation on the origin of god.
THEOLOGY: speculation on the qualities of god. •
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The Individual
BY KARL SCHMIDT
A
SUBVERSIVE crew of intellectual devils—lucky
strokes of fate—fraternized and boozed together in
the evening at Hippel’s Wine Bar in Berlin, Ger-
many after the death of their cherished philosopher
Georg Hegel in the mid-1800s. They fancied themselves Die
Freien (The Free Ones) and became known as Young Hege-
lians by historians. As a casual group, no exact records exist
of all the men and women whom convened; however, numer-
ous members rose to prominence through the eclectic, infer-
nal subculture the club fostered. For example, both Karl
Marx and Friedrich Engels mingled there regularly in their
youth prior to their religious devotion to state-communism.
Besides them, several now-obscure but ingenious intellects
dropped their own literary atomic bombs. Two exemplars—
Karl Schmidt the author of The Individual and Max Stirner
the author of The Ego and His Own—waxed philosophical on
the theme of the individual or ego. In many ways, their avant-
garde, unrepentant doctrines lucidly invoke the precepts of
The Devil—personified essence of devilhood—in a dissident,
take no prisoners style of discourse that undermined the con-
servative theological tradition of that time. But beyond their
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proto-postmodern, anti-idealist themes, Karl Schmidt in
particular penned his ideas in a blaze of acrobatically agile,
brain-twisting prose. The pluralistic manner in which he tap
dances back and forth between superlatives—as does Frie-
drich Nietzsche on occasion—might seem weird and even
contradictory to a casual reader, but beneath the aesthetic lies
a sound individualist philosophy. And for anyone who loves
literature, they will find nothing less than a feast of delights
and a newfound favorite.
While regrettably much of the written material by the
Young Hegelians has either not yet been translated to Eng-
lish, or has fallen through the cracks of history, the philoso-
pher Eric von der Luft translated Schmidt’s The Individual
from its original German to English in 2008 for the first
time. So now with the greatest of honor, the reader will find
below an abridged passage of this obscure but exquisite dis-
sertation.
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which he flows out and to which he flows back. But he rep-
resents himself so little as the way, the truth, and the life, not
as the light of the world, not as the starter and finisher of
faith in whose footsteps we should follow. He does not make
his world into an idol which all should worship, his thoughts
into almighty and always valid dicta which all should honor,
his interests into the interests of other human creatures, or
his opinions into norms for every one; all this so little that he
knows rather that others have and can have nothing mutual
or in common with him among all these named things, and
therefore cannot be in common with him...
He has in general nothing more to do with obligations,
with tasks, with ideals, with spirit; and is therefore the least
possible ideal of any of them. He wants to become the
founder of his own religion and sends no missionaries out.
The individual is not an idea, a fantasy, a thing of thought,
or an ideal, just as he does not run with any of them, and he
does not do so because he is not their opposite and is not
ensnared by being their opposite.
The individual, because he is not an idea, has no pathos.
He is apathetic, with neither passion nor fanaticism. He does
not appeal to authority or violence to make his way... because
he has no authority, no violence to do, no way to make... he
has no teaching. Because he himself believes nothing and
everything, and is so full of faith that he is a believer and an
infidel, a right-thinker and a dissenter, an orthodox and a
heretic all in one, he does not start any inquisitions to extort
the faith of others or to make the unfaithful either believe or
die. He allows everyone to be happy after their own fashion,
if he needs to get happy.
The individual is not the species because the species no
longer exists at all for the individual because, through this
designation, the individual is again transferred into a spirit-
world and into a heaven because he is not the exemplar. The
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individual is not atheistic just because he is not theistic but be-
cause he has retired from the entire old world in which spirit
had to fight with non-spirit, heaven with hell, God with the
devil, the holy with the unholy, the infinite with the finite,
the eternal with the temporal...
The individual is neither good nor evil. He says with
Hamlet, "there is nothing either good or evil but thinking
makes it so." The individual stands in the middle among he-
roes of virtue, not virtuous and certainly not infatuated with
virtue... he lets suffering humanity—suffer. But he is also in
the middle of the tumult of vice, not as a servant of vice; he
is not a fanatic criminal and he does not live or move or die
as a believer in vice for vice's sake any more than he suffers
and dies as a believer in virtue for virtue's sake. Virtue and
vice are for the individual conceptless concepts and conceived
conceptlessness. For him there is no pure knowledge, and
thus in general no knowledge... thoughts are simply spooks.
The I puts itself ahead of the you. I am the expression of my
own self. I think only my thinking. The individual scoffs at
pure thinking. The individual is the ground and the measure
of knowledge and thought, i.e., there is in general for the in-
dividual no knowledge and no thinking... does not recognize
any uniquely individual truth as absolute, incontestable, and
immutable, but rather they lead everything in front of them-
selves, the exclusive and only valid tribunal... in order to turn
truth against itself even as clearly as its birth, and in order to
make truth into untruth and untruth into truth through this
tribunal... The individual worships no godly, heavenly con-
figuration which has demanded that he be faithful and that
he must worship it fervently; the individual is groundless be-
cause he is fully fixed in his ground... he is his very own rea-
son in everything and out of everything.
In the individual, love and hate fall together. He cuts and
"breaks open the buds of love"... He knows no "sympathy of
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kindred souls" and no "rapturous congeniality." The individ-
ual has no spiritual racetrack on which he must run and no
spiritual price according to which he must run.
The individual is not part of a greater whole that dwells
above and reigns over him, not a phase of the absolute, not a
citizen of the state, a member of society, a part of humanity,
etc. He is the death of all objective powers, even the most
severe among them, "world history," the last judgement, the
titanic battle of spirits, the law of human development, the
inviolable marble temple of fame, the glorification of God—
through his being he is the death, the annihilation, of judge-
ment, battle, law, fame, glorification, and unveiling. The in-
dividual is not the salve of alien powers. He kneels before no
one. "He is the blast furnace" in which tough ore of "power"
is fused together with spiritual ore and brazen spirit, with
stony love and loving stone, and at the same time with
wooden iron and iron wood... He goes through all possible
configurations, as he so wills and because he so wills. He is
he himself. He is the individual... his word, i.e., his appear-
ance, says I is Everywhere and only I is The Whole.
The individual is an incommensurable magnitude. No
measure measures him and no standard can be important to
him or for him. The individual himself is his own measure.
"I am myself alone." He is original, and being original is first
of all being actual, then being oneself, one's own, special,
unique—individual. He is nothing. He is all. He is, since he
is not, and he is not, since he is. This contradiction and he
himself as the resolution of this contradiction are his oxygen.
He is a Proteus who relentlessly reinvents himself in new
shapes and permeates life anew. He is always resolving him-
self, generating himself in his resolution and enjoying himself
in this process of resolution and generation. Each moment
he recreates himself. He is nothing restful, nothing at rest,
nothing fixed and finished, not a conclusion, but rather a
continuation, progress, advancing, becoming, being and non-
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being, and non-being and being; and nevertheless, in this in-
finite and finite din of roaring waves crowding one another
out, in this organic world and the mankilling storm—person-
ified peace, the laughingstock of gods, blessed indifference
and indifferent blessedness. The individual in his process of
development is Lord God and The Devil, Christ and Anti-
christ, a humanist and a materialist, good and evil, ethical and
unethical, sensible and nonsensical, cultured and uncultured,
spirit and spiritlessness, heaven and hell, dreamer and the
peace of knowing, critic and believer, honor and dishonor,
veneration and contempt. He can burn, scorch, and blacken
like "the energetic sun" and be lukewarm, in love, and loving
like "the melancholy moon." He has the light of thinking and
darkness of thoughtlessness within himself. He can be ab-
sorbed in a Beethoven symphony and deify the substance of
feeling and laugh at art. He can move softly and obligingly in
the life of the state and pay the loyal citizen and in turn can
be called revolutionary or disturber of the peace. He can ob-
serve the laws of culture, swear allegiance to the city of the
Olympian gods, to spirit, to truth, freedom, love, but can also
be cultureless and spiritless. He can grasp the golden mean
and leap over all limits and boundaries into the extreme. He
can cry with the criers and mourn with the mourners, be non-
sensical with the nonsensical and serious with the serious,
and at the same time rejoice among the mourners, joke
among the series, and be smart among the nonsensical. He
can be unfree in freedom and free in unfreedom... and appear
as weak as a child or as worn out as an old man, as sentimental
as a woman in love and as unmanly as a man in love. Truth
is the creation of his head. Love is the creation of his heart.
Will is the thermometer and barometer of his life force. His
life is his deed. His fate is his character. The individual
rightly forges his own happiness with bold, ingenious, pow-
erful strokes. The individual is individual... the correlated
pairs, reciprocal negations, electrical poles are all indicated in
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the realm and domain of spirit and are consumed by the in-
dividual in the certainty of his supreme power. The individual
is the totality, the complex, the shining center in the chaotic
web of his properties. His properties are his relief, the musical
vibrations of the root note, the sound of keynotes, the gleam
of his strong character expression or his obstinate physiog-
nomy, the echo of his resolute melody, the clarity of particu-
larly individual nuances of color, the expression of living de-
terminacy. Yet the properties of the individual are also the
aspect of a tabula rasa, the appearance of absolute caprice...
bundles of interruptions, outbreaks of volcanic unrest, abrupt
hurrahs of orgiastic rejoicing. The ungraspable, the unap-
proachable, who draws back from every touch or rather tol-
erates every tough because no touch can touch him. Thus this
individual is the existent volubility: everywhere and nowhere,
taken in and taken away by nothing, not even by himself be-
cause every instant he strikes himself dead and eats himself
up.
Personified one-sidedness and admirable all-sidedness,
completeness in himself and exemplary man of the world, the
most diverse nuancing and the horrible monotony, the rich-
est fullness of life's materials and the poverty of all: one
uniquely individual source, one uniquely individual gush, one
uniquely individual arrangement—able to accept all forms in
all variants of this same theme in all virtuosity.
The most widely variegated play of colors resounds in
him: in this fresh fullness, in this inextinguishable energy, in
this immortal shamelessness, in this high pathos, in this flexi-
bility and excitability. The individual does not love: His love
today can be hate tomorrow and his hate today love tomor-
row—and yet he is the only love that is actual, which is what
love is supposed to be.
The individual is not free; he is the existence of free-
dom... to be human means to be God. The individual, who
on the one side is truth, freedom, love, and genius, is the
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apostasy of the common interest in truth, freedom, love, and
genius. He is an organic world in himself—this inorganic be-
ing; independent of external, foreign determinations, he
freely creates from within himself his appropriate forms of
expression and conditions and illuminates them from all sides
until they are inside the most uniquely individual being... the
living dialectic.
The individual is "the unique one," no longer the spiritu-
alized, mendacious, Stirnerian unique one; not the unique
one who is thus a unique one because he is placed with others
in comparison with them or not in comparison with them
and therefore in identity of non-identity with them; but ra-
ther this unique one, this "I here" who has no "other" and
who is not comparable with anything outside himself. Leib-
niz said: "There cannot be two identical things; since if they
were not differentiated, they would not be two, but one and
the same." That—as well as its opposite—is valid for the in-
dividual. He is peculiarity through and through, the uniquely
individual, independent of production wholly and com-
pletely—he himself—his own core, his jumping-off point, an
original: Without originality he would not be himself. The
individual is beyond comparison and incomparable; incom-
parable with the great and grand appearances of the world,
incomparable with the greatest virtuosos of religion and art,
incomparable with the most distinguished philosophers and
statesmen. He stands so far and so deep and so peculiarly
above and beneath them that he cannot be compared with
them at all, because they have collapsed before him in foam
and bubbles—so peculiarly that not only the greatest, but also
the least, are compared with him, since the individual brings
honor to even the tiniest being because he has been in dis-
grace with the great figures of world history as well as with
the insignificant figures of world history, i.e., because he is
beyond them both. Before him "the series of thinkers" has
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— The Individual —
turned pale. He stands on the wreckage of this realm with his
motto: "I am myself alone."
The individual does not exist for an other. For an other
being denotes selflessness. Whatever is for an other, the other
can make out of it whatever he wants. The individual is more
than something that exists for an other; he is for himself and
he takes and uses everything of the other for himself. The
individual tramples underfoot anything that contradicts the
individual: Everything must yield to his being; everything
drowns in the well of his life. He allows nothing to come into
himself unless he has transformed it into himself, into his
own life, and has used it for his life, for new stimulation, ex-
citement, agitation, transformation, and metamorphosis.
The individual manufactures everything that he meets or that
is given to him for his individual expression. Everything is
penetrated by the touch of the individual, by his electrical
spark. The individual has himself everywhere. Whatever the
individual senses, thinks, or perceives, he senses, thinks, and
perceives only himself. For the individual all measure is the
stuff of sculpture and the stuff of culture. For the individual,
for the demon who gnaws at everything with his wholeness,
width and breadth and size and length—the main point con-
cerns both his enjoyment of his force. He says: "Where one
stands, the other must yield."
The individual has his joy, his pleasure, always in himself
and in all his thinking and doing, his living and moving, in
all his being; he mirrors himself everywhere and in every-
thing, lives as he feels, lovingly gazes at and promotes only
himself, his being, his existence. To him everything is a
means to stimulate his joy, his self-mirroring, since every-
thing is his and he makes everything his own. Nothing can
disturb his joy because nothing can withstand or endure his
sharp glance.
You ask where the world of the individual lies, beyond
the Himalayas, or beyond the ocean, on the moon, or in
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— The Individual —
Heaven. I hear your discourse, dear spirit-human, and in or-
der to give you no answer, I answer you: The world of the
individual is and exists with and within the individual. You
ask whether there can be, will be, or are other or several in-
dividuals besides. Your question is the question of monstrous
waste and selflessness, of humans who have no strength and
no energy. The individual who is everything in himself and
has everything outside himself cannot, cannot answer this
question because it cannot be answered. Oh, I see how you
rejoice over the roast meat. It's not too hot yet. The joke will
be spoiled for you. You think that I have now "explained"
what the individual is any you want me now to thrash him to
bits and flay him to death like a dogmatist or a critic would.
Don't bother. I cannot give any characteristic of this individ-
ual because therein cannot exhaust the absolute fullness and
the absolute void of the individual and because it does not
matter to me that you "know," or rather it matters much that
you "do not know" whether I am and who I am and who I
am not. The individual is critique, not pure, not critical, not
historical, but individual, particular, unique critique. The in-
dividual cannot be grasped and cannot be had, tolerates no
account of himself, and no one can give an account of him.
"I am myself alone." •
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— Excursions —
Excursions
DESCENT INTO THE BRIMSTONE MINE
I
F the reader has enjoyed the iconoclastic and subver-
sive themes of this confessional-style philosophical
treatise, then they might like the author’s preexisting
literature too. Timothy has penned a 413-page atomic bomb
entitled Black Magick: The Left Hand Path as well as a 33-
page carpet bomb called Black Magick Manifesto—both avail-
able through Become A Living God.
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— Cosmic Blaze —
This universe, which is the same for all, has not been
made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and
will be—an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular
measures and going out by regular measures.
—Heraclitus, Fragment 2
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