P R O V A T I O B O N I

In ancient Greek, Beauty is "Ομορφιά"
— Fullness of Form.

Ugliness is "Ασχήμια"
— Absence of Shape.

The absence of good, also known as the privation theory of evil, is a theological and philosophical doctrine that evil, unlike good, is insubstantial, so that thinking of it as an entity is misleading. Instead, evil is rather the absence, or lack, of good.

Ugliness is the absence, the negation of Beauty.
It does not have any substance of its own.

Image: Paolo Girardi

Looking back at this equation, we can conclude:

The beauty of free flowing, unhindered growth can be discovered when the obscurations of stagnation and fixation are shattered with ruthless determination.

C U T T H R O U G H
W I T H O U T
M E R C Y

In the same way, the good can only shine if the evil is shattered,
and the beautiful can only grace our senses if the ugly is recognized as inherently empty.

The evil is naturally aggressive.
It's an absence of Goodness.

The dumb is naturally loud.
It's an absence of Wisdom.

The ugly is naturally glaring.
It's the absence of Shaped-ness.

Get your hammer and chisel ready.
The stone must be hewn.

Build your fortress and ready your swords.
That which you drive out will return sevenfold.

Prepare to fight.

Image: Woman I by Willem de Kooning

"In India the guru of the Seven Tathagatas, Manjushri holds upwards the Sword of wisdom which completely severs the Enemy(Ignorance). In other words, there is absolutely no sentient being that cannot be reached by that blade. The one who begins to study the martial conduct, if he is solely and wholeheartedly devoted to the worthy deva Arya Marici, he becomes capable of accomplishing mysterious proficiencies."

Sonten-no Kinsei(Prohibitions of the Worthy Devas)

G R A D U A L R E S H A P I N G

There is not yet strength-in-numbers when it comes to enlightened leaders who possess the mind that goes through crises unscathed; fortified, even.
What they have is strength-in-quality.

We're in the generation stage of that new kind of human - a demographic who hold the most precious of motivations and who are developing exceptional powers of both supreme and mundane nature. They're the ones with the potential ability to actually turn the tables. That's by far not a majority, and it might remain this way for a while.

It is necessary to spread awareness of what's wrong with the system and how to make it right by using whatever strength-in-numbers we have available. Because when any one of our people actually ends up in a power position, they will need all the support they can get. Spread ideas, share thoughts, refine understanding, build the potential for change.

But don't expect it. Don't force it. Let it happen when it will.

The strength-in-numbers alone is not what will shift the current system. While that has its own interdependent role in large scale, eon term developments, majority votes are seldom what gets results, and you know it. Majority action does.

The aim is to find those who are naturally built different, and teach them to be untouchable. They'll be the ones both surfing the system and flying under the radar, and then gradually climbing the ladder to a secret - sacred - place. All that is so much less flashy than what "we're back" sounds like.
It's an extremely quiet process.


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We can only learn to live through crises by means of living through crises.

Those who persist are more likely to keep persisting.

Those who have potential and decide not to sink their teeth into living well for both Self and Other need some tough love.


L I V E ( l o v e )
W I T H F O R C E

M O T H E R S
O F T H E L I N E A G E

Facing war, facing destruction of homeland and housing, facing the death of their children, facing neverending hard work for many hungry mouths, they lived with force, and loved with force.
Nothing but unwavering tenacity kept them, their families and laborers alive.

Like granite, their character turned tough. They quite literally surrendered their lives to the lives of the generations to come and managed to keep the eternal flame of motherly compassion alight throughout, behind their earnest exterior, until the very end.

Their names were rubies.
Their hands were iron.
Their voices were amber.
Their minds were diamonds.
Their hearts were gold.

May we take after them in willpower.
May we blend that power of will with the insights of our time to assert it skillfully.
May we thus attain the wisdom of doing what is necessary while also being mindful of our own resources.
May we develop the transformative art of relaxing into the crashing waves of hardship.
May we show conduct worthy of the crown of feminine pride, and live in honor with energic determination.

R E L E N T L E S S
S P I R I T

A L L T H A T I S B O R N
M U S T D I E

Each fire must eventually go out.
The beauty of that end is in the smoke twirling in the air.

Once risen, it must soon fade again, into the great ocean of perfect dissolution, maximum entropy.

Return to the source.

T H E P E R F E C T B L E N D
O F A L L
I N N O T H I N G