Inspired by Fisher’s Ghosts of My Life and the "sound of hauntology,” the episode taps in soundscapes of liberated despair from The Caretaker, Burial, Tricky, Black To Comm, and Position Normal, G.E.S, Jan Jelinek, Mordant Music, Belbury Poly, Asher
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“The First Principle is not even ineffable, for even the term ‘ineffable’ attributes something to it, whereas it is beyond all attributions.”
-Damascius, On the Ineffable.
Problems And Solutions Concerning First Principles
"But when he showed himself in the chambers, he saw the women & the leaders of the dance all standing in a trance without commotion.They stood upright and looked upward."
Bacchae 1084-40
Silence is the traditional response of nature to an epiphany of God.
E.Dodds commentary
Plotinus' Fifth Ennead:
The Intellect (Kronos) generates all things and "reabsorbs" them within itself, keeping them from falling into matter and being overturned by Rhea — preserving their eternal stability.
The Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp is one of the finest Persian illustrated manuscripts. Created in Tabriz with 258 miniatures, gifted to Sultan Selim II in 1568. Once 759 pages, now scattered across collections worldwide.
Excerpt by Ibn ‘Arabi (1165–1240), a great Sufi mystic.
From The Interpreter of Desires (Tarjuman al-Ashwaq).
Love is the Unifier and the key to all mysteries
Luke 22:49-51
When Jesus’ followers saw what was going to happen, they said, “Lord, should we strike with our swords?”And one of them struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear. But Jesus answered, “No more of this!”He touched the man’s ear and healed him.
Nothing happens to life in old age. Old age is simply life itself in its spatiotemporal excess, without "repression". The "good" of youth is inversely proportional to life as such. No wonder, then, that Saturn is depicted as malignantly "jouissant", rather than "castrating".