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What follows is a party political broadcast on behalf of the Verandah Vanguard, circa the year 4009AD.
The principles of the Verandah Vanguard have always been rooted in the intrinsic Divinity of Elevated evolution for all things, in Godly growth, in Managed mutation, in Righteous revolution, running through all areas of society like bifircating lines of electric fire, through all sign-to-sign interpretations we might have of Society and the Law, from the communities that comprise the human psyche, to family units and love affairs and philosophies and sciences, to the entire normative understanding of a political State itself.
Everything is in fluent flux, everything is permitted, life is a laboratory and we are chemists in experimentation: but with the Goal that, ultimately, each experiment across all levels leads us closer to a Perfection that permeates through all levels. Through continual flux derives Perfection, true social evolution. Previous revolutions failed because they did not take into account that constant mental re-volution is required for there to be Progress to the Goal: not a single, linguistically interpreted political moment, but a continual dialectic within the Ummatic assembly of the lesser Mind. Let the child be suckled until it has legs to walk!
I couldn’t make my mind up whether you intended this ironically, or not. Anyway, be that as it may, I could certainly sign up to the manifesto of the Verandah Vanguard (;-) as you have put it here.
Your ‘dialectical’ Perfection is interesting, too, since I’ve long been intrigued by the influence of Rumi on Hegel.
“Hegel argues that in order to see the consciousness of the One “… in its finest
purity and sublimity, we must consult the Mohammedāns [sic.].” He then immediately
focuses on Rumi as follows:
“‘If, [for instance], in the excellent Jalāloddin-Rumi in particular, we find the unity
of the soul with the One set forth, and that unity described as love, this spiritual
unity is an exaltation above the finite and vulgar, a transfiguration of the natural
and the spiritual, in which the externalism and transitoriness [sic.] of immediate
nature, and of empirical secular spirit, is discarded and absorbed.’
“The above passage is clearly an indication of Hegel’s confirmation—and even
admiration—of Moulānā’s successful application of dialectical method to the unity of
divine love; an admiration of the pioneering work that was produced some five-hundred
years before the master himself. Hegel is so impressed by Rumi’s imagery and precision that he could not refrain from quoting long passages from his magnificent poetry.”
[On the Dialectic of Rumi's Discourse, Cyrus Bina and Mo Vaziri.]
Peace James,
The (decidedly non-ironic) Verandah Vanguard would no doubt achieve its molecular and molar objectives if it were populated with more Souttars! Noting, of course, that these “objectives” are necessarily a transitory, temporary, frail shelter (a sukkah, Judaically) dialectic assemblage.
Thanks for the Bina and Vaziri paper, I wasn’t aware of it and will read it carefully. I’ve got some more to post regarding Hegel (and the Kojèvian reading that I subscribe to, in particular, noting that Kojève studied Soloviev, providing another chain of transmission to the Eternal Truth) — hopefully in the new year.
Best of blessings to you and yours in the New Year,
Mu