An Apology
G.D.O'Bradovich III
December 1, 2012
In “Mozart’s Room” I discussed taste. Taste, unfortunately, is one of the talents that one either has or doesn't. Taste can not be taught. Ultimately taste has its origins in mathematics, but is more than math alone. Once perspective was taught to art students, those who, for one reason or another, could not master or understand the mathematics of perspectives are considered artistic failures. Why?-if follows if one can not use one aspect of art, then one can not be an artist. These rules of thumbs, for music and art, were not devised for those with natural talent-they could create without expressing knowing of these “rules”, but for people of lesser ability.
When a master of one of the arts finally, in exasperation, said to an apprentice, “It just feels right.” the student erroneously thought that the master utilized his feelings and not his intuition that came from years of experience. This use of feeling as a justification for doing any and everything, whether justified by mathematics or not, has continued to the present day.
Taste, when it comes to looks and sounds, has its origins in mathematics and personal experience. When someone says “It doesn’t feel right.” was using a colloquialism for “It doesn't look correct” and this means that on some level, this person knows that something is amiss, although they may not be able to express this verbally.
It is with a heavy heart that I must apologize to my blog buddies. Through an accident of history, I have succumbed to the openness of the modern age through blogging. This behavior may be acceptable to a political scientist or a practical philosopher, but not to one who aspires to the occult. For what does dealing with the profane have anything to do with research, discovery and enlightenment?
The occult, as I see it, is the search for facts and knowledge and the simplicity of the answer often times reveals the validity of the findings. Facts are part and parcel of the occult. This taste for beauty can not be found in practical philosophy. Philosophy, if it ever were appealing, has been sullied with the practical or political. In the occult, there is no reason to lie and give misleading answers to keep the masses from learning our vital secrets. We do not engage in “pious frauds” or “noble lies” to placate the majority who do not understand us, our goals or our writings. No we do not care, gentle reader- we leave them to their ignorance and do not care about them, their goals or their writings.
Practical philosophy must keep this charade of the immortal soul and divine judgment and karma and a host of other deceptions going for all time. If this deception comes to the light of day, society will collapse once the vulgar realize they can do anything they want, so as long they are not seen by any authority. Virtue must be shouted from the rooftops, but criminal activity must be confined to dark and unseen places. Philosophy blatantly uses fear to keep the masses in line. Plato gives the virtuous life as a goal in this life and the wheel of fortune in the next life. Nietzsche disparages anything that has a flavor of the modern. Between the lying of Plato and the venom of Nietzsche, is it any wonder that so many people are confused and in a state of personal conflict? The duplicitous nature of philosophy must necessarily lead to psychoses and neuroses, not only of the adherents of philosophy, but those they come in contact with must be infected with these psychoses and neuroses. In this day and age, what individuals have not been in contact, either knowingly or unknowingly, with Plato's ideas and derivative concepts from his philosophy?
Therefore, gentle reader, I must abandon the subterranean chamber that is the critiquing of vulgar behavior, bad taste and current events and return to the joy and solitude that is occult research and discovery.
When a master of one of the arts finally, in exasperation, said to an apprentice, “It just feels right.” the student erroneously thought that the master utilized his feelings and not his intuition that came from years of experience. This use of feeling as a justification for doing any and everything, whether justified by mathematics or not, has continued to the present day.
Taste, when it comes to looks and sounds, has its origins in mathematics and personal experience. When someone says “It doesn’t feel right.” was using a colloquialism for “It doesn't look correct” and this means that on some level, this person knows that something is amiss, although they may not be able to express this verbally.
It is with a heavy heart that I must apologize to my blog buddies. Through an accident of history, I have succumbed to the openness of the modern age through blogging. This behavior may be acceptable to a political scientist or a practical philosopher, but not to one who aspires to the occult. For what does dealing with the profane have anything to do with research, discovery and enlightenment?
The occult, as I see it, is the search for facts and knowledge and the simplicity of the answer often times reveals the validity of the findings. Facts are part and parcel of the occult. This taste for beauty can not be found in practical philosophy. Philosophy, if it ever were appealing, has been sullied with the practical or political. In the occult, there is no reason to lie and give misleading answers to keep the masses from learning our vital secrets. We do not engage in “pious frauds” or “noble lies” to placate the majority who do not understand us, our goals or our writings. No we do not care, gentle reader- we leave them to their ignorance and do not care about them, their goals or their writings.
Practical philosophy must keep this charade of the immortal soul and divine judgment and karma and a host of other deceptions going for all time. If this deception comes to the light of day, society will collapse once the vulgar realize they can do anything they want, so as long they are not seen by any authority. Virtue must be shouted from the rooftops, but criminal activity must be confined to dark and unseen places. Philosophy blatantly uses fear to keep the masses in line. Plato gives the virtuous life as a goal in this life and the wheel of fortune in the next life. Nietzsche disparages anything that has a flavor of the modern. Between the lying of Plato and the venom of Nietzsche, is it any wonder that so many people are confused and in a state of personal conflict? The duplicitous nature of philosophy must necessarily lead to psychoses and neuroses, not only of the adherents of philosophy, but those they come in contact with must be infected with these psychoses and neuroses. In this day and age, what individuals have not been in contact, either knowingly or unknowingly, with Plato's ideas and derivative concepts from his philosophy?
Therefore, gentle reader, I must abandon the subterranean chamber that is the critiquing of vulgar behavior, bad taste and current events and return to the joy and solitude that is occult research and discovery.