The creation
and evolution of the entire visible cosmos, and of on Earth,
is the product of the dialectical interplay of two antagoic
universal forces:
- the force of Conservation,
which seeks ever to preserve
- existing forms, rhythms
and balances, just as they arc, and which is strongest on
the "dead" moons and distant planets;
- the force of Creation through
Destruction and Change, which trongest in the fiery furnaces
of the sun and distant stars.
The force of Conservation
has always been immanent in the ibic world, and manifests
through inertia, Earth's balanced and Pregulating ecology,
and the instincts of self preservation and
Sexxual reproduction of all
living species. But the force of Creation, destruction and
Change acted mainly from outside, through meteorimpact, sunspots
and the resulting climatic changes, until it entered the human
mind when our ancestors mastered fire. Since then has sought
to use humanity as its agent of ever faster creation and destruction
on Earth.
For most of the known past,
human priests and shamans managed by appropriate rituals to
preserve human freedom of choice by keeping the two contending
forces in balance within the human mind and society. The Indian
and Chinese religions have done so to this day.
Three thousand years ago,
however, the warlike Caucasian tribes started worshipping
the force of Creation/Destruction exclusively to conquer the
more balanced and richer agricultural civilizations. Mosaic
Judaism and Calvinism are the most extreme examples of this.
The fruits ofthis unbalanced
worship of one of two contending forces have been much greatersuccess
in warfare and conquest for the patriarchal monotheist societies
and-within the last two hundred year.~,accelerating scientific
knowledge of the environment and the universe, and evermore
powerful fire-based manipulative technologies. But the cost
has been a destructive acquisitiveness, obsessional creativity
of mass-produced industrial artifacts and aggression, which
is now threatening humanity and the whole oflife on Earth
with destruction.
As the age-long antagonism
of the two forces nears a climax, they each in turn address
the reader directly in the last two chapters:
- the force of Creation/Destruction
glorying in the approaching thermonuclear holocaust, which
will wipe the slate clean for a fresh creation and evolutionary
process;
- while the force of Conservation
and Love calls on humanity at this late hour to save itself
and life from destruction by returning to a worship of its
own genetically-inherited feelings of love and joy in lific
as it is.
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