by FourthBase » Mon Mar 18, 2013 4:52 pm
This thread is win.
Burnett's Satan looks like an exact cross between Obama and Anakin Skywalker.
I remember the hypomanic mileage I once got from entertaining a cosmogonical/sociological/psychological scenario wherein every dual relationship in life was a metaphorical and perhaps literal manifestation and reflection of some unorthodox relationship between God and Satan. By dual relationship, I mean, husband-wife, mother-son, father-daughter, brother-sister, master-slave, teacher-student, doctor-patient, FourthBase and OP ED lol, you name it. If it's an important relationship between two people, then it epitomizes and re-creates a God/Satan dynamic. But not a static one, one always good one always bad, one always God one always Satan, one always male one always female, etc. But a dynamic that is always subject to switches in perspective and shifts in leverage, a relationship where one time it's God being the oppressor and Satan being the liberator, sometimes Satan the transgressor and God the conserver, sometimes those roles reversed, inverted. And not always necessarily an antagonistic relationship, sometimes warm and cooperative, but always tragically separated by an unbreachable gap, which deep down both parties wish to overcome in union. At the height of my madness, I could intuitively translate the meaning of every love song on the radio into a depiction of this God/Satan dynamic, as if every love song were inadvertently a song specifically written as such a depiction, the depiction of God's and/or Satan's longing for reconciliation, or achievement of such reconciliation, or grief over a failure to reconcile. Try it yourself. There's a popular Bruno Mars song right now that is some of the best material for that reinterpretive lens I've ever heard. But any and every love/heartbreak song will do. Stevie Wonder, Blondie, The Beatles, and on, and on...
This sensibility faded as I grew saner again, but it is still accessible to me, purely as metaphor. It kind of creeped me out at the time, that lens on life and relationships, to be honest. I got the sense that such a lens could be adopted by very bad people and adapted to justify very bad things. Luciferianism always gives me the willies. But then I also knew, there was indeed some kind of gorgeous, redemptive quality to be managed out of the lens, carefully. I have yet to read it but I'm guessing Blake's Marriage probably touches on this. As well as a whole host of pre-existing esoteric/gnostic literature. Not sure how much of a role cryptomnesia played in imagining such a lens/metaphor/dynamic, but it sure felt like I was coming up with it all on my own, a little amateur Alfred Russel Wallace of divine-diabolical duality, a Wallace who was probably 917,365th to discover it instead of 2nd, and probably two or three thousand years late to the party, lmao. Anyway. Cool story, yo.
“Joy is a current of energy in your body, like chlorophyll or sunlight,
that fills you up and makes you naturally want to do your best.” - Bill Russell
