The Absurd Heresy

The Absurd Heresy was an article-poem first published by Ander Contor on January 15, 2003.

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THE ABSURD HERESY

Metaphysical poem in 100 verses

2003

PREMISE

Looking at a shooting star, a crumb of cold material that becomes luminous as it passes through the atmosphere, and also observing how only certain bodies that pass through a magnetic field are influenced to varying degrees by it, were the starting points that made it sprout in me some ideas that, at first, appeared to me bizarre and absurd: but not entirely.

Over time and fueled by fantasy, these ideas have made me mature the hypothesis that the human soul is nothing but the effect of a kind of fleeting "magnetization" of matter in the field of Pure Spirit, of Being Divine, of the Word: fleeting participation in the Divine by a living organism - but still a crumb of matter, that is, of the Non-Word - which has reached that stage of perfection to make it sensitive and receptive to this kind of magnetization.

I have used terms borrowed from physics and an analogy in a very translated sense, which of course cannot be taken literally: terms and analogy which nevertheless seem suitable to me to make the concept understandable. Especially since the similarity of magnetization, even if absolutely improper, can lead us to suppose that such magnetization, as in physics, can be of various intensity (which, among other things, would explain "psychometry") and moreover, at the moment of death, that is to say the exit from the "field" of the Divine, can be both exhausted and canceled out of a sudden as it gradually extinguishes in a subsequent period: this last hypothesis would allow us to explain some paranormal phenomena and, in certain narrow limits, to suppose partially valid also the so-called "spiritca" theory, without however invalidating the more modern "animistic" or "psycho-bio-dynamic" theory developed in the early seventies as a whole.

In our terrestrial world the perfect receptive organism of the Divine identifies with man. But nothing prevents us from imagining that in other unknown worlds (perhaps even in the microcosm) similar particles of "living matter" participate fleetingly and in a similar way to the essence of the Word, in spans of time that could go from our second to our millennia.

Thus, keeping firm the dualism spirit-matter and the principle of the "Divine Being", I have finished contesting the Genesis, the common sense of human life and the immortality of the soul.

But I certainly do not consider these conjectures and fantasies of mine as a point of arrival: it is only a question mark thrown there, in the immense chaotic whirlpool of human thought and its thousand whys.

Absolute

unity spirit idea

divine essence and why

of everything and nothing,

simulation of millennia

in the eternal moment:

they are

always and forever

the Verb.

Plurality of shape dimensions,

Finite and unlimited relative universe...