Bridges and Cliffs

Just a short post, in keeping with a promise I made a few months back to take a hint from Nicolás and Write concisely, so as to finish before making the reader sick.

"In virtue of its very nature as embodied spirit," writes Clarke, human beings are "the high priest, the pontifex (bridge builder) of this whole material cosmos." 

Pontifex. That's an out of-town word we don't often hear in my neck of the woods, but one Schuon often springs on the reader. For example, man "is the center and opening toward Heaven, or pontifex." Elsewhere he writes that

the human norm is to be pontifex: it is to realize equilibrium between two poles of attraction; it is to connect two shores, the inner and the outer. 

But the bridge isn't made of concrete or steel; rather, it seems that it's frankly a bit wobbly, perhaps because it's made of flesh. This bridge, because it is

suspended between the Infinite and the finite cannot not be ambiguous, so much so that, inevitably, "offenses must needs come"; it is thus inevitable that man -- beginning with the original fall and passing from fall to fall -- should end up in rationalist luciferianism, which turns against God and thereby opposes itself to our nature; or which turns against our nature and thereby opposes itself to God.

In case you were wondering about the ontological origins of Pride Month, the celebration of sexual mutilation, and the joys of chemically castrating children. 

Secular humanism, good and hard: "nothing is more fundamentally inhuman than the 'purely human'" (Schuon). Or, in the words of the Aphorist, “Human” is the adjective used to excuse any infamy.

Pride?

The "dark" and "descending" tendency [alluded to above re the Fall] not only moves away from the Sovereign Good, but also rises up against It; whence the equation between the devil and pride (Schuon).

So, Devilry Month. Or perhaps Rob Your Children's Innocence by Forcing them to Watch a Tranny Show Month. As Nancy Pelosi said, it's at the foundation of what America means. Or else!

Dávila:

According to modern man, oppression begins when any filth is prohibited.

Modernity won for man the right to vomit in public.

It is not so much from the barbarity of this era that the cultured man has to defend himself today, as from its culture.