AtDTDA (37) 1046/47"I'd've let you do the cooking"

robinlandseadel at comcast.net robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Tue Jul 22 10:25:27 CDT 2008


          Julius Evola:
          "In the traditional world, on the contrary, nature was not 
          thought about but lived, as though it were a great, sacred, 
          animated body, "the visible expression of the invisible." 


          Mark Kohut: 
          I like this enormously in understanding---with his 
          own more aslant non-fiction words--a major vision in 
          his work, most fully expressed in AtD?

If "Science"—Big Science [hallelujah]*—is the new religion than
"The Sentient Earth" is the new heresy. OBA's been collecting 
heresies for quite awhile, I suspect that "Meritorious Price" has
been in the background all along. Examples of the holistic unity
—the "at-one-ness"—of Earth abounds in AtD. 

Everything connects.

*Born out of a need to justify exploitation, "The Age of Reason"
so ably parodied in Mason & Dixon was more like "The Age of 
Rationalization." Not simply out of its need to explain away "the 
supernatural" but also in the sense of narrowing options until the 
line to the abattoir singles up, nice and smooth.




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