Taking Back Beauty.

Taking Back Beauty. What the feminists do not understand is that Beauty is nothing other than the cognitive experience of the Divine Love. To speak of this verbally seems sketchy, but it must be addressed. When a man slips into a state of Spiritual Rapture, Kundalini Awakening, satori, or what ever one wishes to call it, the conventional boundaries betwixt Subject and Object are dissolved. In a state of ecstasy, he experiences an ineffable sense of Unity with all other Beings, one that challenges the paranoid (and par-annoying) neuroses of his conditioned conscious ego. It is as though identification with a Power Greater Than His Self challenged him: Either accept Heaven on Earth now, or return to your daily Hell. Nirvana or Samsara: You choose. The contemporary Feminists choose Samsara. They choose ego. They choose hegemony and totalitarianism. They are a product of the Fascist Media that keeps the average individual bound to the chakra of Power. To them an advance made by a man upon a strange woman is a gesture of Power. Their dignity is only in the illusory 'status' that perpetuates the American corporate empire and military machine. The irony is tragic. If only for one moment they could see the mind of this male subject. Only this subject is objectified, for they not only dis-confirm his religious passion but dismiss it and try to correct it. But what does He see, if he truly sees? A certain female mystic said that she could see in even the most vulgar expression of human sexuality the Divine Love. What does a Spirit-stricken man have to lose by telling a woman working at a book-store that she is Beautiful? Only ego. Only fear. Only status. If she appears offended that is merely the illusion of the conditioned ego. She has not been objectified; to him, the courage to venture in this ecstatic self-expression was born of the dissolution and disillusion of the illusory hegemonic divide betwixt subject and object entirely. Foucault posited that we reduce people to objects of Knowledge in an attempt to gain Power Over Them. Yet Jung said: Where Love abounds, the Will to Power is not to be found. Yet it takes one in love with Humanity to recognise the distinction in the 'Other', no longer an Other to his own mind. De Beauvoir developed similar ideas in her French feminism, drawing on the influence of her life-partner J.P. Sartre. But to her the goal was the escape of one's own sense of Otherisation, self-imposed of course with the aid of an oppressive Social narrative. Foucault strove to dissolve the ego into this same primordial Love, a love that he experienced and Became when he took L.S.D. in the desert of the Grand Canyon, and so he comitted his Life (and death) to the study and dissolution of the artificial Power Structures that created this neurotic 'self'. What these French giants would think if they saw what the American Left made of their work! Social justice does not matter. Spiritual evolution matters. The ecstatic man loves all. He does not merely love the Unity of All Things. He would become a Fascist as straight as an arrow. He does not merely love the General; he is in love with the particulars, for to discriminate between Agape and Eros is still to have not transcended. Service to self does not contradict service to others when Self and Other have dissolved in to one another. So he feels desperate to dissolve the boundary now betwixt Mind and Matter. Were his Transcendance merely mental he would lapse in to the isolation of the Pratyeka- Buddha. He must now hurry to Express his Love, lest he be- come Consumed in Spiritual Isolation. The mental must be- come material. He asks a woman, suddenly becoming Aware of their Cosmic Kinship, to sleep with him. May be he only wishes to inform her of the Beauty of her Carnal form, now suffused with Spirit. It is ludicrous to suggest a 'reduction' of the female mind to the physical. There is no longer a phenomenological distinction: Only the glowing ecstasy of her desirable body as though from both with-out AND with-in. Of course this is a peculiar dignity; other women do not so impress him, and he would not fake attraction to their bodies. What does that bother him? What dignity could he accord to his individual, neurotic intellect? To hers? To her 'mind'? To 'her' mind? All has Become THE Mind, and there is no tension betwixt the intent of the subject and the object. Camus' Absurd tension of Self and World snaps. Ecstasy tempts him. The Universe gains a teleology. It is not He that desires her and subjectifies her as Beautiful. There is no longer a hidden Objective Noumenal woman 'as she is'. It is the God-head that desires her For him. And this God is benign. The approach could never be violent. Only unexpected and miss-understood. All offense is a failure to comprehend the moment. S. Kierkegaard. The initiate into Divine Love has attained the full force of the Tao, which labours tirelessly, loves all beings, but does not Lord its Love over them, only offering them to acquire its same force and its Dyonesiac splendour. It is only when this Tao loses the kingdom of men that there comes talk of service to others and propriety. It is only once the man has succumbed to fear and fallen back in to Samsara that he feels re- crimination for the impulse. Yet in fact it is re- crimination for the failure to Act upon this Natural Impulse and Birth-right properly. He forgets. The feminists get to him. Would you have expressed the same Love for an elderly woman? A man? No. That kind of Fascistic preference for the Unity of people over their dis- parity would be a lie. The dignity and Natural Virtue (Te) of the male body is (in this case) to be drawn to this peculiar female body. Nature is not rejected in favour of Spirit. All living things pollinate without the need for an ideological conception of this Natural Teleology. The American Utilitarian conception of sexuality, the Catholic ethic, or the Feminist ideological hang-up that sexuality is a power attitude... These are all the Maya of the Ego. The Divine Love is everywhere. But its topical expression is peculiar. Potentialities are just as much a part of Eternity as are immanent Actualities. And even if these passions do not attain consummation, the only internal necessity is that they gain recognition by the Other before she becomes again Other. All else can slip away in the ecstasy of God, the flowing of the Tao. dM.A.