The Contention

THE CONTENTION

(from the Divine Pymander)

A.
"...for the contention is of (the) One against Two,
B.
whilst it flies away,
C.
they strive to hold and detain it.
D.
But the victory of both is not like,
E.
for the one hasteth to that which is Good, but the other is a neighbour to the things that are Evil;
F.
and that which is Good desireth to be set at liberty, but the things that are Evil love Bondage and Slavery.”
The Divine Pymander of Hermes Tresmigestus. tran. D. Everard
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Refutation of Republicanism

A. The political contention between the Right (Republican) vs. Left (Democrat) over America bears out this description. The One is what "America" stands for as a unity: the concept; idea; linguistically distributed terms of authorized use from each citizen to all government officials. Tokened in documents, oaths, wars. Both of the Two claim to represent that Unity in what they stand for.

B. "whilst it flies away..." -- the incessantly flowing process of intra- and extra-psychic interactions mediated by living communications: America ever on the wing..

C. "They strive to hold and detain it." Other translations connect B./C. with the suggestion that One resists being bound by Two, interpreting "flies away" as "straining against".

D. There follows the central teaching if the Contention, The victory of both is not like There is a real difference between what would exist under Republican America vs, what would exist under Democratic America. This holds as regards continuity with the past, the present flow of process, and for latencies determining future potentialities.

E. This next is hard. Everybody is willing to follow the Great Pymander until this part:
"...for the one hasteth to that which is Good, but the other is a neighbour to the things that are Evil."

This does not say one (of the two) IS Good and the other Evil. The opposition between these is presupposed, the way that the opposition between 'straining to be free' and 'holding onto by dividing' is presupposed in stating the contention between One and the Two. The opposites "hasteth to that which" vs. "neighbour to things that are" posit a psychic polarity of: attraction to the Good by one side's One, vrs. neighborliness with things that are evil on the other.

F. " that which is Good desireth to be set at liberty, "

Desire toward the Good is toward liberty. This urgos (direction of the will) restates the completion of the One unbounded. It is the Democrat party that restates this completion of America in each individual.

G. " but the things that are Evil love Bondage and Slavery.”

Here is where the Republican party does the metaphysical flip-flop. It's coated version of America has delivered the McCain/Palin ticket in 2008, completing the Orwellian circle, 24 years after 1984. The things of Bind and enslave the soul will be disguised as things loved as the Good. It is the possibility of this Reversal -- of Evil for Good, however Good is defined if it implies liberty -- that the Divine Pymander leads us to see. Republicans cannot, dare not, and will never set anything at liberty. Such talk is what they call "dangerous", possibly requiring constraint and sterile handling.