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O Father in heaven, prithee, rid the world of these incoherent babblers and self-righteous preachers, the Hegelians. Protect thy supplicants, true philosophers, disciples of Schopenhauer and Kant, those bright stars and heralds of coherent and lucid teachings, who do a service to both philosophy and mysticism by defending the immanence of the one and the transcendence of the other. O Lord, dispel these sickening abstractions vomited forth by these clerics of confusion pretending to Godhood, dissimulators and dreadful deluders. Smite thy foes who declare to know thee by ontological proof, these dotards that dull the edge of philosophy, claiming to enlighten, who instead corrode the metal of the mind. Lord, demystify that which never ought to have become mysticism and defend truth's loyal guardians. We thank thee that thou remainest apart from asinine abstractions and that thou hast not hid thyself behind puerile conjurations where none but idle idiots can find thee. Thou shalt read the first critique, saith thee, and thou shalt read Schopenhauer, but thou shalt not read Hegel, for thus saith the Lord, I shall give thee not a bridge but a stout shield that thereby they might defend themselves from vain abstractions and misshapen monsters in muddled mazes, and come pure and undefiled to me, God of the unknown, the unknowable, holy to the faithful and the meek. Refresh the spirit of living, and cast those naysayers and profiteers, those merchants of madness, the Hegelians, into hell where they may preach to boasters and buffoons, where they might wholly misinterpret Kant and revel in unholy things. Glory be to thee and thee alone, God of gods, highest of mysteries and holiest of holies. Peace to all and clarity to all mankind and hellfire to second-rate philosophers. Amen.

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It is interesting that in the same place that he is talking about imitation he also talks about Christ. There is something very, very deep here. Saints, philosophers like Kant have been preaching this sort of morality for centuries; it has been enumerated very clearly, but for the most part, I think, it humanity has failed to understand it fully. Still, it is there, floating around, waiting to be understood. It is right there, in the Gospels, in the work of Augustine, Kant, and so forth.

I think, to some extent, this idea of morality being central to the spiritual progress of man has been forgotten or smothered in the name of a more materialistic progress. We don't care about morality so much anymore and instead have faith in the potential for science to bring meaning into our lives. But it doesn't, really, because science is terribly impersonal and dead; there is more value in a single work of great poetry than in all fruits of the supposed technological destiny of man. Weininger wrote extensively about this; he said: "Art creates, science destroys the sensible world".

People are still competing, they are still using each other in order to validate themselves. Men are still using women to piece together their dismembered hearts. They are filling the holes in themselves by gazing upon material things and fusing themselves to them, and when change happens, as it inevitably does in the material world, they feel as though they are ripped apart, and once this happens they curse God and look for ways to get revenge on the world.

It is madness to curse Fortune; she promises nothing. Why are we commanded not to worship false gods and idols? Because they are not the one true God, they are not eternal, and so they cannot serve as a foothold because they will give way; they will change, and in worship they always require a scapegoat. Violence will continue until man is made whole, until his frenzy and lust ceases and he turns to God and redeems himself and resigns to Christ's Way without fear.

I believe this is the only true (and potentially permanent) consolation in life, anything else is fleeting.