Philosophy and Literature: Prometheus Rising, Evolution As The Transition from Man to God
Evolution, a dynamic process on which two stochastic processes of different types act: selection and negentropy, or negative entropy.
Authored by Robert Anton Wilson Via Prometheus Rising Book
The World Wide Wealth, as R.A.Wilson called it in the far and fascinating 1983, in terms of Royal Capital has always doubled its result generation after generation.
According to orthodox economists, material and economic wealth derive from land, labor, and capital.
According to the Marxists it derives only from land and work, while capital represents the key element of the robbery.
Both these theories are wrong simply because they do not take consideration any real source of wealth, or call ideas that work, or negentropy, negative entropy, nothing further than proper Information.
Where does this source of wealth come from? From human neurons job.
Exclusively brain produces all that we experience, it is the brain that creates the ideas, socially used to become wealth: roads, bridges, buildings, networks, scientific laws, production plants, computers, medicines, spaceships …
Negentropy represents a coherent order that moves by changing and expanding over time.
A dark side of Wealth does exist, and it is called Illth, from a definition by John Ruskin.
Illth is an evil power side producing only death, destruction, and human life degradation.
Wealth and Illth are dominant forces in the Evolution process, however we need to consider new forces that exercizes on perception that evolution will have in future: Utopia and Dystopia. These forces, concretized or not in accordance with will and awareness, and achieved by human beings in their given stage of their time and consequently of their evolution stage.
Humans fight for Wealth by feeding the Illth, humans struggle for wealth by not creating Illth, this may be considered as a peculiar scientific definition about the struggle between what religions named as good and evil.
Progress of Western societies is based on Utopia and this conception owns distant roots coming from Middle East.
That is to say: who trusts in utopia is not part of anti-utopian reactionaries.
William Blake:
“The prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared to say that God spoke with them; and if they did not think at that moment, that they would be misunderstood, and therefore be the cause of the imposition.
Isaiah replied: I did not see any God, nor did I hear any, in a finite organic perception; but my senses discovered the infinite in everything and, I am convinced of it, to remain to confirm it; the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I don’t care about the consequences, but I write to you “.
However a vision of Infinity is a common perception and idealistic image since dawn of time for men, but what distinguishes a man it is a voice of honest indignation against all institutions that would deny or destroy this infinite inside each human spirit.
The realization of our full power, or the fire light given to us by the Titan Prometheus shine a in the distinct mystical Western tradition, and about this there is certainly no trace in Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and in any other Eastern religion.
For example, Thomas Jefferson developed his own vision of “All Men Are Created Equal” by the perception of the Infinite within every human being, as described by the Scottish philosophers Reid and Hutchenson. And this is inserted in the context of the 18th Century, in the rise of Illuminati circles with the affirmation of their new concept of Progress, taken from the symbolism of Prometheus. Despite being strongly hindered by tsunami waves of ignorance and formed by careless and unaware masses of flesh of life itself, it remains as something we achieved without turning back.
Evolution is a real fact: Quantuum jump, disappearing and appearing from a point to another of the biosphere and from a point to another of human intellectual history.
The Greek Myth of Prometheus tied to a tree among the rocks, torn apart by birds of prey culprit for giving light to humans, and so punished to Eternal Doom, is the sinnedoche, a perfect symbol that explains how the evolutionary circuit takes place in human beings, the torn flesh of Prometheus represents the historical function of taboos and morality, Prometheus is both Evolution and suffering, forged by affirmation of equal unity.
Prometheus Spirit is a regurgitation of the Eagle, our pain for evil caused by inevitably pain feeding on our perpetual Knowledge status.