{"id":11004,"date":"2019-05-12T23:16:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T03:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=11004"},"modified":"2022-05-12T07:58:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T11:58:43","slug":"objective-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=11004","title":{"rendered":"Objective Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nOur age is an age in which men rise painfully from effects to causes, in which they even concern themselves only with effects, in which they say it is useless to concern oneself with causes, and in which they do not even know what a cause is. ~ <strong>Joseph de Maistre<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The crown of the Emperor signifies the renunciation of freedom of intellectual movement, just as his arms and legs signify his renunciation of freedom of action and movement. He is deprived of the three so-called &#8220;natural&#8221; liberties of the human being&mdash;those of opinion, word and movement. Authority demands this. ~ <strong>Valentin Tomberg<\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Every possible world requires five conditions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Form and matter<\/li>\n<li>Space and Time<\/li>\n<li>Consciousness (or Life)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A world without consciousness is inconceivable; try it if you can. Space and Time are necessary for conscious experience. Although they may be experienced differently in different worlds, there needs to be some sense of synchrony and diachrony.<\/p>\n<p>Anything that exists in the world requires matter and form, or essence. These two factors are related to our knowledge of the external world and the intelligibility of the world.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The objective reality of the world is imposed on us through the senses<\/li>\n<li>The \u201ccrown of thorns\u201d give conscience to objective thought<\/li>\n<li>Thought, in its pure state, is the organ of truth, not illusion<\/li>\n<li>However, the five dark currents of the will take hold of the thinking centre, thereby distorting it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The External World<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>\nA wound is a door through which the objective exterior world intrudes into the interior of the closed system of the subjective interior world. Speaking biologically, it is a breach in the walls of the fortress of the organism by which forces from outside the organism penetrate into its interior.<\/p>\n<p>The eyes are open wounds which are so sensitive that they react to every nuance of light and colour. And it is the same with the other sense organs. They are wounds, i.e. it is they which impose on us the objective reality of the outer world. Where I would like to see beautiful flowers, my eyes make me see a pile of dung. I am forced to see what the objective world shows me by way of my eyes. It is like a nail from outside nailing my will.<\/p>\n<p><em>The senses\u2014given that they are sound and functioning normally\u2014are wounds through which the objective world, without regard to our will, imposes itself on us.<\/em> ~ <strong>Valentin Tomberg<\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hence, we create a representation of the external world in consciousness, seemingly against our will. Moral action requires a Not-I, in which there are objects in opposition to the I, and which pose a challenge to our projects. A weak will may deny aspects of the external world, and a strong will accepts the challenge.<\/p>\n<h2>The Intelligibility of the World<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe head bears the &#8220;crown of thorns\u201d, which is borne, in principle, by every person capable of objective thought \u2014 the &#8220;crown of thorns&#8221; being given to the human being since the beginning of human history. It is that subtle organ which is designated as the crown centre. This crown centre is a &#8220;natural gift&#8221;, as it were, to each human being and every normal person possesses it. The &#8220;thorns&#8221; of the crown centre function as the &#8220;nails&#8221; of objectivity, which give conscience to thought. It is thanks to them that thought has not become wholly emancipated and as arbitrary, for example, as the imagination is.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thought as such is, in spite of all, the organ of truth, not of illusion.<\/em> ~ <strong>Valentin Tomberg<\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\nA process of mind is thinking only so far as it realizes the end of thinking, which is always to understand, that is, to see things within a system which renders them necessary. ~\u00a0<strong>Brand Blanshard<\/strong>,\u00a0<em>The Nature of Thought<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The senses show that things exist, but not <em>what<\/em> exists. In other words, the senses are open to the material condition of the world and the mind perceives essences. Initially it grasps the essences of individual things; this is so common that few ever become aware of it.<\/p>\n<p>Living thought then sees things in relationship to each other, both synchronically and then diachronically, in larger and larger wholes, until ultimately it grasps the Absolute. This is spiritual vision and enables one to see the future.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to popular belief, no mere accumulation of facts can lead to an understanding of the world; only objective thought can do so. Facts do not create theories. This is most emphatically illustrated in the systems created first by Newton and then by Einstein. Newton\u2019s theory, despite its effectiveness in predicting events in the external world, was replaced by Einstein\u2019s more comprehensive understanding. So if Newton\u2019s theory was NOT dictated by the facts, it must therefore be a free creation of the human spirit. The direction is one way: facts don\u2019t create the theory, but the theory creates the facts.<\/p>\n<p>If thinking is the organ of truth, then how can we account for all the divergent differences in thought and opinions?<\/p>\n<h2>Evil Will<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>\nImagine that the five organs of action\u2014the limbs, including the head in its function as a limb\u2014were to have analogous wounds, i.e. that the five currents of will of which they are an expression were to give access to an objective will which would be to personal desires what sense perceptions are to the play of fantasy. ~ <strong>Valentin Tomberg<\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When functioning properly, the mind discerns the good and guides the will. Otherwise, the will controls the organ of thinking, using it merely as its instrument. Thinking, in this case, will then justify what the will desires; it sinks into subjectivity and fantasy, both opposed to its God-given function. Irrationality\u2014that is, the denial of the Logos and cosmic order\u2014and outbursts of anger are its bad fruits.<\/p>\n<p>Those are the marks of an evil will.<\/p>\n<h2>Cause and Effect<\/h2>\n<p>People tend to work backwards, from effects back to causes. As Hume demonstrated, however, this concept of cause does not arise through reason, but follows rather from a habitual way of looking at things. This is another way of saying the facts cannot create understanding, so knowledge of effects cannot dictate the knowledge of causes.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, through force of habit, men fantasize about causes in order to try to understand the world. Hence, in the past, the unknown substance phlogiston was assumed to create fire and spontaneous generation to explain maggots in garbage. In our time, there is no shortage of fanciful causes to explain events. One group will claim that it is white privilege or the patriarchy; another will blame Christianity or the Jews. Books are written to discover the hidden causes behind events. They are popular because men prefer easy answers, and it gives them the illusion of intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>What is much more difficult, however, is to discern the effects, especially the long-term effects of causes. The effects of a policy embarked on today will usually not be experienced for a generation or more. It takes a rare intelligence to anticipate the future undesired consequences of what is done today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joseph de Maistre<\/strong> was not interested in the logic of facts, since, as he asserted, the Law of Gravity does not cause the rock to fall. Instead, he was concerned with the moral logic, or the moral cause of events. Science deals with facts yet can never answer the question, \u201cWhy?\u201d Ultimately, therefore, it comes down to the moral will, which is the real cause. And an evil will results in evil effects.<\/p>\n<p>A bullet or a gun is not the cause of murder, but rather the person who pulled the trigger.<\/p>\n<h2>The Spirit of Schism<\/h2>\n<p>People take great pride in causing division through <a href=\"?p=40\">partisanship<\/a>. In the West, for example, there are repeated examples of schisms that broke up the spiritual unity of Europe. The illusion is that there are only two choices. Ultimately, another option comes into play, if for no other reason than to end the bloodshed of the warring factions. Even though everyone knows that \u201ca house divided against itself cannot stand\u201d, the will-to-greatness drives men to settle for half of the house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our age is an age in which men rise painfully from effects to causes, in which they even concern themselves only with effects, in which they say it is useless to concern oneself with causes, and in which they do not even know what a cause is. <span class=\"continue-reading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=11004\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tradition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11004"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16129,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11004\/revisions\/16129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}