No More Secondhand God

1 NO MORE SECONDHAND GOD

1  NO MORE SECONDHAND GOD

2Late tonight

3 (April 9, 1940)

4 I am just sitting here for one of the many reasons that people find themselves passionately isolated.

5 (The cause is rarely noble.)

6 In the midst of my overly self-emphatic thought

7 I say, suddenly,

8 (as most of us do):

9 imagine, realize, the preposterousness of your chagrin in the face of what is involved in the newspaper headline on the chair over there.

10 OSLO KEY BASES TAKEN BIG SEA AIR BATTLES ON World Telegram 7th Sports.

11 It’s no longer a phoney war but I don’t think about that nor do I think much about Oslo.

12 I think of such of the aviators and sailormen as

13 are in command of their faculties on both sides at this moment. Though you have been out in a froth-spitting squall on Long Island Sound or in an ocean liner on a burgeoning sea you have but a childlike hint of what a nineteen-year-old’s reaction is to the pitch black shrieking dark out there in the very cold northern elements of unloosening spring off Norway’s coast tonight

14 15,000 feet up, or fifty under or

15 worse, on the smashing face of it and here I see God.

16 I see God in the instruments and the mechanisms that work reliably, more reliably than the limited sensory departments of the human mechanism.

17 And he who is befuddled by self or by habit,

18 by what others say, by fear, by sheer chaos of unbelief in God and in God’s fundamental orderliness ticking along on those dials will perish.

19 And he who unerringly interprets those dials will come through.

20 And—thought-wise exploring further the possibilities of unerring interpretation I think of the strangest of paradoxes vouchsafed to, and by, man.

21 For most simply through paradox do I usually discover truth.

22 A sufficient light within a seemingly opaque black object may suddenly convert that object into a brilliant vari-colored lantern.

23 As a philosophic corollary: multifaceted truth is discovered

24 within the lantern of paradox whose contrasting colors are but angularly separated lines of the spectrum of the unit phenomenon, light,

25 only at differing

26 wave lengths and frequencies.

27 A new and translucently truth is thus lensed in all the colloidals to human necessity, such as drama and music, religion, fun, anger, war, prejudice, praise, as individually assumed personal virtues and relative proximity to God.

28 Ecce!

29 all peoples divided against one another are in their digressions equally inverted and self-deceived in their respective tampered-with standards.

30 The degree of self-deception is proportional

31 to the width of the angle of disagreement,

32 and the greater that angle of stress, the greater the anger.

33 The greater the anger, the greater the susceptibility to further propaganda—a cancerous hate growth.

34 And all propaganda is false if merely by misemphasis. It is false because it approaches diametric unbalance, which scientifically speaking is chaotic.

35 Chaos is erosive, explosive, shattering, and therefore the antithesis of the only potential survival means of homo sapiens: through the harmonic integration of knowledge whose kinetic is universal.

36 Observe some paradoxes.

37 On the one hand the Germans and Russians preaching rule of the masses—National Socialism, atheism, paganism—are in fact the sole demonstrators of the importance of individualism.

38 For they employ individualism’s most cogent premise that the ship must have but one captain.

39 And as individuals they believe precisely in the survival superiority of mechanized man. But the organized church uncomprehending the mechanical extension of man says that such belief is pagan and the totalitarians accept the designation as true

40 and therefore proceed

41 with wanton conviction

42 to behave in the appropriate manner of a social outcast.

43 Thus ‘‘licensed’’ they invent

44 vast and ofttimes ludicrous

45 prevarications

46 as ballistic instruments.

47 They lie with as eager enthusiasm

48 as that applied to gunpowder and plane making.

49 And on the other hand the English and French though preaching Democracy, Individualism, and

50 Christianity

51 are the greatest progenitors of collectivism and paganism

52 for theirs is a corporate amorphous individualism

53 a legal entity individualism

54 of limited personal liabilities,

55 a shadowy industrial monopoly, a secondhand dictatorhood, soulless.

56 And its sovereign perfidies,

57 perpetrated usually through the negative tactics

58 of omission or misemphasis,

59 may reasonably be charged off to ‘‘impracticality’’—to ‘‘unwieldiness,’’

60 to ‘‘vagaries of custom,’’

61 to ‘‘sportsmanship,’’ to public ‘‘convenience,’’ or to ‘‘mystical traditions’’ incumbent upon the corporate Messiahood of sovereign nations.

62 And the machine is to them and their church but an inanimate, garagey sort of money pump.

63 Albeit,

64 the preaching individual of either side believes naively

65 in his own personal free will articulation and benevolence.

66 I say naively, because the war itself is the direct cumulative result of non-freedom of the will of the individual to articulate itself in the attainment of its obvious potentialities of better living on earth.

67 Children are not born slaves.

68 Slavehood is swiftly superimposed.

69 Now the inanimate slaves are here to take over but the animate slave complex is still virulent particularly

70 in the subconscious of managers.

71 And in the traditions they manage.

72 Wherefore total abolition apparently involves first burning down the old house, set on fire as an unbelievable clown-act which much to the amazement of the circus proprietors no one attempts to put out.

73 In the great quasi ‘‘democracies,’’

74 so far as the general scheming of things is concerned the individual no longer exists.

75 Mass production anticipates

76 the individual’s selective functioning.

77 Chain hotels mass-produce

78 mass-collected service suggestions

79 tendered on printed cards

80 by a mass-publicized unseen ‘‘cordial host,’’ who ofttimes a thousand miles away, sometimes long dead,

81 sometimes quite nonexistent

82 is ‘‘personally interested in you and your comfort,’’ at 200 of your cents on ‘‘his’’ dollar.

83 Here also as citizen

84 man is expressed only as a party machine

85 in the ‘‘body’’ politic,

86 and his government expresses a mean low average statistic ‘‘man.’’

87 Any social action, if at all,

88 is weeks, months, and years laggard

89 to the thinking frontier of the individual.

90 His hour, minute, and split second thinking

91 and vital selection

92 are most nearly interpreted

93 but nevertheless inadequately,

94 by the corporate cranium—‘‘Journalism,’’ industrialization’s limited-liability vocalizer.

95 And as capitalist or as inventor, or as worker in the democracies he is no longer individual for he is no longer effective as such. And he may only be flavoringly effective as one of the many merged riskers, researchers, believers, or laborers. No corporate expression expresses what he exactly means, and therein precisely lies the fate of Democracy.

96 Many people believe Democracy obsolete. They are wrong.

97 Obsolete is the one thing Democracy can never be, obstinate, obstreperous, observant, obscure, but—

98 I will explain. That is, I will if it’s Democracy you really wish to save, and not some trick you have been getting away with behind its kindly broad young back.

99 (If you don’t really believe in the world that is, but only in one to come, or one gone by, your best chance of finding such another is by walking out a very high window.)

100 If you do believe in the world that is, and wish to continue its development and are willing truly

101 to pay your way take a chance on Democracy.

102 You will find its highway plunk beneath your feet. Today’s sign posts along it are modern.

103 They say for instance:

104 If you wish to prove Democracy a preferential method of living don’t resort to Dictatorship to prove it. Thus have all the rest of the major nations allowed themselves to be bum’s-rushed into doing by panicked international finances.

105 Out of the method chosen in the time of emergency emerges the new survival way of peace time government.

106 Democracy has potential within it the satisfaction of every individual’s need.

107 But Democracy must be structurally modernized must be mechanically implemented to give it a one-individual-to-another speed and spontaneity of reaction commensurate with the speed and scope of broadcast news now world-wide in seconds.

108 Through mechanical developments of the industrial age

109 the cumulative production of human events

110 within the span of a four-year administration is now the quantitative equivalent of the events of a four-hundred-year pre-industrial dynasty.

111 But it is the producer salesman who has been super instrumented and merged into a tinker colossus, a Pan-Continental

112 blacksmith, baker, and light maker.

113 Democracy must, as consumer and worker, as soldier and mother, as scientist, or simple enjoyer, be made adequate cathode to the mighty merged anode.

114 Devise a mechanical means for nation-wide voting daily and secretly by each adult citizen of Uncle Sam’s family: Then—I assure you will Democracy ‘‘be saved,’’ indeed exist, for the first time in history.

115 This is a simple mechanical problem involving but fractional effort of that involved in distributing the daily mails to the nation.

116 Telephone talks in the U.S. each day are three times the number of votes which were cast for President

117 in the record election year.

118 Electrified voting as bride to our most prodigal wildcat broadcasting and beloved son—journalism, promises a household efficiency superior to any government of record because it incorporates not only the speed of decision which is the greatest strength of the dictator, (a boon if he’s godly, a death-ray if he is not)

119 but additional advantages which can never be his.

120 Additional advantages of electrified voting first coming to mind:

1.
Provides an instantaneous contour map of the workable frontier of the people’s wisdom,

121 for purposes of legislation.

122 administration, future exploration, and debate, so that neither over nor under

123 estimate may occur,

124 of their will and ability.

2.
Certifies spontaneous popular co-operation

125 in the carrying out of each decision.

3.
Allows for continuous correction of the course, or even complete reaction,

126 should (and as) experience indicate desirability, ■without political scapegoating.

4.
No foreign power in the world can stand up against

127 the unified might thus invoked through the thrilling mystical awareness of multi-millions of individuals that they personally have taken responsibility for the course, and that their own inward secret moral decision coincides with the majority in the application of their mutual strength, (vast now in U.S.A.  by the will of God beyond any in history) in the righteous salvation of the peoples of the earth.

5.
The credit and imagination

128 of all outside peoples of the world

129 will be so stimulated that nothing will stop them short of attaining a line to that voice.

130 But so to do

131 they must join up with Democracy.

6.
The possibility mathematically

132 of effective abuse through cheating

133 is nil.

134 I venture to say that the self-policing

135 by the honor system

136 spontaneously invoked

137 would make the fate of horse thieves

138 or snatchers of absent-news vendors’ pennies

139 frivolous by comparison.

140 No block or pressure group

141 that is not a constitutional enemy

142 could consider running the risk of ‘‘stuffing.’’

143 The direct votes of any subversive enemy to

144 Democracy within

145 the U.S. would be inconsequential in number—would eventually disappear in such a system.

7.
It cuts right across

146 all red-tape of legal precedent

147 and any question of constitutionality, and

148 may be started extra-mural to the constitution

149 while getting out the bugs,

150

151for instance by Charlie McCarthy, and Clifton Fadiman, script by ‘‘Time Questions,’’ sponsored by Coca-Cola. Someday to be constitutionally adopted when tuned up.

8.
The economic credit base is self-contained.
9.
As direct evolution it cancels

152 the possibility of revolution.

153 Accomplishment of this VOICE

154 must be a deed of organized responsibility of the U.S. press in its broadest sense.

155 If having tried it, a modernized, electrified, direct Democracy proves inferior as a survival means against all-comers, then may the people turn with contentment to the superior means.

156 But if direct Democracy is not tried now, future generations will again champion it, and there will be world civil wars until it receives adequate trial.

157 I believe America has now won the right to be first to try Democracy that it is both sufficiently experienced and intellectually developed to provide a safety factor margin which can insure success after all deductions: for bitter hardship of mental and physical stress; for surprise, and panic;

158 and most importantly for gross error.

159 But whatever America’s choice—I go with it with heart and soul for its sagacity and time sense I believe infallible.

160 Yes, I can see how that would be a superior means of government, but there is still something essential and bigger which we first must consider; without which one, or infinity, of life cell organisms is but frightful matter—and that is rebirth of

161 OUR FAITH—

162 In a direction;

163

164In comprehendible meaning no matter how meager

165that checks with our daily thought with our most random soliloquy;

166that implicitly tingles in our fingers and toes, and gladdens the vision;

167that even is singing in me as I catch at a new popular song.

168Faith, far, far more precise in meaning than the academicians’

169‘‘nonanthropomorphic’’ designation of God, and with none of the popular vagueness of Einstein’s epochal

170‘‘cosmic religious sense,’’

171yet embodying all that is important of those concepts, not down or up written, but translated to a living

172workable spontaneity that requires no answer from

173others or books.

174An all sense exciting, all reason inspiriting

175Faith in omnipotent justice omniscient love always attending with infinite wisdom.

176There is of course the church—today a big-three monopoly of credos—a coalesced ‘‘Roman, Protestant and Jewish,’’ big business,

177 its back to the wall.

178

179Irrespective of its past values to faith the church is now but a convenient compromise to divert the pressure of fear’s escape through the perpetuated waterwheel of the re-manufacture of all useless contrivances of which the individual would personally divest himself but for nostalgic ramifications.

180The church,

181once the largest and busiest of community structures, now exists only as a memorial

182to the necessity of a special building for God,

183so that a compromise ‘‘He’’ need not interrupt business in the latter’s over-towering houses on the six days of the week that are not ‘‘His,’’ yet be on hand

184to broadcast ‘‘the right stuff’’ on the seventh, while the boys go off golfing.

185The church is also security-capital’s nontaxable hostage against mobile Democracy’s eventful discard of ‘‘real’’ property—the perpetual debt base, that persistent static in the otherwise high fidelity reception of industrial democracy economics.

186In the totalitarian states conversely all Messianic credit is, caro name! allocated to the supreme living individual symbolically centralized in one—‘‘Our Father who art in Berlin, Moscow, Madrid, and Rome’’ simultaneously—the end all of anthropomorphic religion.

187And the supreme individual is never a pretty god and he is funny when he goes by special train to meet himself coming the other way through a mountain pass and shakes hands with his absurd reflection.

188But all of importance here to me tonight are two reactions—one negative, the other positive.

189 First, that both sides have allegiance to fallacy—and the individuals of each side are forced to esoterica and to personal exemptions from all law, scientific or moral though the laws are clearly mirrored to each individual as essential for all others but self (well, maybe not for the sweetie).

190 And positively:

191 That tonight vividly (as tacitly always) God is articulating through his universally reliable laws.

192 Laws pigeonholed by all of us under topics starkly ‘‘scientific’’ —behavior laws graphically maintained in the performance of impersonal instruments and mechanics pulsing in super sensorial frequencies which may serve yellow, black red, white, or pink with equal fidelity.

193 And I see conscious man alone as mechanically fallible and progressively less reliable in personal articulation of God’s ever swifter word, which was indeed in the beginning. Only as mind-over-matterist,

194

195as philosopher, scientist, and informed technician

196 impersonally and universally preoccupied

197 is man infallible.

198 For the oral and written word

199 was but the haphazard infant

200 of the ever more precise

201 modern instrumental articulation

202 of communicable comprehension.

203 We know this to be true

204

205because mechanisms can only perform successfully, their ever more superhuman and untiring precision of communication of truth

206in proportional degree to their engineered adherence to, and interpretation of,

207 universal laws,

208

209which though sometimes couched in poetry are always essentially scientific.

210 As minor testament

211

212witness the two-hundred-inch telescope as it proceeds to reveal a known universe at least eight times as great as yesterday’s and the electronic microscope

213 which now begins the revelation

214 of fundamental minutiae

215

21650,000 times finer than the best light (or eyesight) microscope,

217 and the actual achievement of atomic energy,

218

219released and controllable.

220These wondrous actualities were always there, inherent in the universe of a god of meaning, but only now through the impersonal ‘‘word’’ of these scientific instruments does God speak of them to our widening comprehension.

221I knew in a sense that they were there.

222 So did you.

223

224But neither of us knew that the other knew until we could ‘‘say’’ to each other, ‘‘There they are precisely identified.’’ Only finite adherence to stark laws of science made this possible.

225And God says observe the paradox of man’s creative potentials and his destructive tactics.

226He could have his new world through sufficient love for ‘‘all’s fair’’ in love as well as in war which means you can junk as much rubbish, skip as many stupid agreements by love,

227spontaneous unselfishness radiant.

228Think it over—I was amazed and despite all inertia impelled to write—and many may have written it earlier and better -without my knowledge.

229In fact I’m sure they have, but I’m writing this and that is important, that is God at firsthand.

230 Never before has neutral

231

232looked on with such unprejudiced willingness to evaluate, adjust, and comprehend.

233Never before has neutral so powerful looked on. Never before has neutral by virtue of a myriad of instruments been so keenly aware

234of every little hamlet upon the face of the globe, so intimately near to them—

235yet at the same time so duck’s-backed to broadcast falsehood or half truth.

236These are innocuous in the magnificent mechanical extension . . .

237People of the United States, (I believe the vast majority of them) who are at present especially staked out to be fooled in a big way, which is vitally and mortally, by all the warring or plotting factions foreign and domestic,

238 are precisely those who alone remain unmoved.

239 It is these silent propagandees who unerringly appraise the pro- or anti-social values of each world event;

240 of each communique;

241 and even of each personal happening at other times trivial:

242 as these too may shade the outcome values of man’s transition

243 from dominant self-deceit

244 to preponderant self-mastery;

245 from stomach rule to dictate of reason; from politicians tricking

246 to scientific guidance;

247 from a fear to a happy comprehension motivation.

248 And because he is innately aware of these things, does man evade past snares—steel himself against artful pathos; welcome the speedy destruction of those former barriers to world happiness which have been humanly insuperable without fracture

249 by any individual member of the old order, from annihilist to deacon, from clerk to Prime Minister, no matter how distinguished by courage and integrity.

250

251But now common man has implicit faith in common man; can safely negotiate a roadway with any unknown other man—even passing each other at one hundred and forty miles an hour in opposite directions—has only been prevented from intercommunicating that faith directly, but now is willing to wager all on mutual effective comprehension at the crucial moment—will not be shamed out of his faith by attempts to falsely identify him—has weighed his distress over concentrate frightfulness of an exquisite moment against unending elusive and unmitigated greater suffering.

252The revolution has come—set on fire from the top. Let it burn swiftly.

253Neither the branches, trunk, nor roots will be endangered.

254Only last year’s leaves and the parasite-bearded moss and orchids will not be there

255 when the next spring brings fresh growth and free standing flowers.

256 Man now vastly instrumented and attendant upon universal laws in his ‘‘blind’’ flying through life will give ever less heed to the seat-of-the-pants opinions of personal equation aces for he knows it was those detonations which formerly misguided him into his betrayal by selfish scheming.

257 Here is true world democracy in the swift making; a democracy which socializes all plenty as that plenty is wrested from scarcity by world-widening co-operative industry;

258 a democracy which, scientifically seeking categorical validity for all the motivations, taxes only inertia

259 and awards copiously its individuals who radiantly expand the commonwealth; awarding them out of the newly integrated wealth captured from the unseen fresh fruits of the limitless environment—

260 and not by the slightest impoverishment of commonwealth, either by mortgage

261 or individual indebtedness.

262

263Here is God’s purpose—for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper; is the articulation not the art, objective or subjective; is loving, not the abstraction ‘‘love’’ commanded or entreated; is knowledge dynamic, not legislative code, not proclamation law, not academic dogma, nor ecclesiastic canon. Yes, God is a verb, the most active, connoting the vast harmonic reordering of the universe from unleashed chaos of energy. And there is born unheralded a great natural peace, not out of exclusive pseudo-static security but out of including, refining, dynamic balancing. Naught is lost. Only the false and nonexistent are dispelled.

264And I’ve thought through to tomorrow which is also today.

265The telephone rings and you say to me Hello Buckling this is Christopher; or

266 Daddy it’s Allegra; or

267 Mr. Fuller this is the Telephone Company Business Office;

268 and I say you are inaccurate.

269 Because I knew you were going to call

270 and furthermore I recognize

271 that it is God who is ‘‘speaking.’’

272 And you say

273 aren’t you being fantastic?

274 And knowing you I say no.

275 At least a quarter of a billion people sit quietly each day for hours in darkened halls.

276 And they say they are ‘‘at the movies’’ not looking at anyone or anything real. They certainly don’t see the screen.

277 I say they are looking at God.

278 Incalculable millions of people sit isolated and silent.

279 And say they are listening to

280 Josephine Baker swinging or

281 Raymond Gram Swing of course not really, but really;

282 and I say they are listening to God.

283 And the journalists tell me

284 that Hitler is blitzkrieging over the earth.

285 And I say that is the greatest

286 understatement in history

287 for it is God

288 now doing the housecleaning

289 and making the necessary renovations

290 in a hell of a hurry because

291

292we personally failed to make them in everyday ways in our own time and there is now only half a world left, and one-half of our time remaining in which to

293 ‘‘let our hair all the way down’’

294

295and say, ‘‘We have plenty, we have the means, the ability, the knowledge. Let us start the mechanism

296 to creative account;

297 not to vast and vaster destruction.’’

298 ‘‘Let us not subscribe to remedy by amputation—

299 first of all of our heads.’’

300

301Let us say to the East and West and the North and the South

302to its now reality spokesmen, ‘‘Here is our helping hand forget your fighting.

303 Let’s put things to rights.

304

305We’ll take care of the inconsequential accounting when mankind has been salvaged if you insist on accounting;

306 for we won’t!’’

307 That is the active, realistic loving of this one moment in all time.

308 No one in America will say that its leader is overstepping his authorized bounds if he takes sincere, forthright, and adequately big steps to accomplish world healing.

309 God will be handling the radio-telegraph for such a mandated dictatorship; and Democracy is not challenged by such a dictator whose very first move must and will be tidal-waved with Demos authority.

310 Stop ‘‘calling names’’ names that are meaningless;

311 you can’t suppress God by killing off people which are, physically, only trans-ceiver mechanisms through which God is broadcasting.

312 But his requirement is dynamic and if man-mechanism proves too inefficient as an invention he will immediately devise a cataclysmic improvement.

313 POSTSCRIPT (1961)

314 Because scientists today are specialists rather than generalists, they have tended to avoid consideration

315 of the total significance of their interrelated work.

316

317The recent decade’s evolution of science finds its specialists continually surprised to discover their respective specializations bringing them into unexpected proximity to other specializations theretofore considered almost infinitely remote.

318We have come to the era of the hyphenated sciences—bio-chemistry, mathematical-physics, physio-chemistry. Suddenly the chemist and physicist discover that they are both dealing essentially with the atom. So they now agree to divide their common field and the physicist deals with the internal affairs and the chemist with the external affairs of the atom.

319Biology which used to think of itself as concerned fundamentally with cells next found itself concerned with the chemists’ molecules and now discovers that it must look to the atoms of which the molecules are formed.

320The next decades will see

321the thus inadvertently integrating scientists becoming surprisingly aware of the total inter-relationship

322of the macro-micro, universe-exploring sciences.

323With the integrating awareness and its synergetic appreciations

324 by the chemico physicists

325 will come a new era of philosophy.

326 In these coming decades

327 the scientists will express their amazed discovery

328 not only of the total orderliness

329 discovered throughout universe

330 but also of the total interrelatedness

331

332and nonsimultaneous inter accommodation regularities of universal evolution.

333 Men used to say

334 that man the scientist brought order out of chaps.

335 The scientists are about to discover

336 that all that was chaotic

337 was in man’s illiterate and bewildered

338 imagination and fearful ignorance.

339 Wherever and whenever men

340 have explored with scientific integrity

341 they have reported the discovery

342

343of the exquisite orderliness of patterning of dynamically evoluting nature.

344 Scientific man is then about to discover

345 a comprehensive integrity

346

347manifest of the highest order of intellectual differentiation

348 and anticipatory conceptioning.

349 This comprehensive intellectual integrity may be logically symbolized by the integral yclept God, as the synergetic totality of universal chemistry’s behavior unpredicted by the behavior of any of its parts or sub-assemblies of its parts.

350 Inasmuch as all men are trending to become scientific, this will mean that all men will also trend toward discovery of the comprehensive, orderly, nonsimultaneously interaccommodative, integrity of universe in which the energy of the physical portion of universe is total and integral

351 and though infinitely differentiable locally can neither be created nor lost and in which finitely combined physical and metaphysical universe a law of conservation of intellection will also obtain

352 whereby intellect as the metaphysical portion of universe will also be total and integral—

353 and though infinitely differentiable locally intellect can neither be created nor lost.

354 Thus will emerge an entirely new philosophical era of man on earth.

355 All religions we have known have been sustained by the arbitrarily adopted or inculcated credit (credo—belief) of individuals who have not themselves made direct discovery, or unique intuitive apprehension, of the universe’s intellectual integrity superstitiously accorded by the blindfolded believers

356 to the few individuals of high intellectual lucidity and extraordinary self-discipline who have dedicated themselves to their intuitive anticipation

357 of the now scientifically emerging realization of the comprehensive integrity of total information.

358 All organized religions of |he past were inherently developed as beliefs and credits in ‘‘second hand’’ information.

359 Therefore it will be an entirely new era when man finds himself confronted with direct experience with an obviously a priori intellectually anticipatory competence that has interordered all that he is discovering.

360 With this discovering will vanish all concepts of a universe originating out of chaos, out of a ‘‘primordial ooze.’’

361 There will dawn an awareness of the integral significance of man being born subconsciously co-ordinate as a billion-fold complex patterning later to consciously discover that there are no ponderable, smallest, hard-core, ‘‘thing’’ particles only abstract, frequency events and that negative matter is co-equal with positive matter and that equilibrium between positive and negative is zero.

362 Man will discover that he is dealing intellectually in a universe of intellectually differentiated co-operative yet nonsimultaneous equations governing the interrelationships of purely abstract principles, no more, no less.