The dream that something will follow this, like adulthood follows childhood
The hope that we shall one day learn, see through the fog, understand
The World unveiled
But this will never happen
The veil of the World is a veil of its own choosing
And Man is given his Embrasure, and no matter how far He extends and expands this Embrasure, He will only see a reflection, the World in a mirror
All Man can see is the shine of things, the light, the radiation
Never the Ding an Sich
He can indeed get closer, see ever more details, but it seems that the more details are revealed, the greater the Mystery
The Mirror is all Man can see
Like The Lady of Chalott
But there is no curse upon Man but a sacred bond between Him and the World that cannot be broken
It is the precondition for sensing that there is a void between the subject and the object
It is a truth about the presence of Man in the All - He cannot both see the World and be the World
That which is in the World cannot sense the World in any abstract manner
That which is in the World does not have Words
When a being acquires Words for its perception it is removed from the World
The Words are the insurmountable rift between Man and the World
It is written:
Language excarnates the immediate and immanently sensed reality.
The language emancipates the individual to share the experienced reality, but imprisons the same individual in the limitations that language necessarily has, being an excarnation of the immediate and immanently sensed reality, and thereby a construction dislodged from that which is sensed immediately.
Language can not bridge the gap between the immediate and immanently sensed reality and the reflected, transcendent mental construction, the latter being language itself.
Language can bridge the gap between individuals but only on its own terms. The immediate and immanently sensed reality remains forever private and incarnated and hidden beneath language.
So: The Promise of Man seeing the World face to face is false. It cannot happen. The merge between Man and the World is the end of both.
And: It is an enigma. It is not just Man seeing indistinctly. Indistinctly means that there is a distinct way to see the World. In the fantasy that the World can be grasped directly, what we see now is indistinct. But the World is not up for grabs. The World will always keep us at a courteous distance, because anything else is not possible.
We may see the World at a closer hold or in a bigger perspective, and that is essential, but the ‘Truth’ is hidden behind the Mirror, in the enigma. The World as it is, seen en face, is truly Paradise Lost.
Thanks for reading Lord Lohmann’s documents. There are quite a few documents under preperation, but some of them are in a rather poor shape from lying in the cave for years
