The Honorable Undead

The Tools of Mysticism Series : VI

Male cultures contain many quaint beliefs which if known would make women guffaw deliriously. I don't intend to reveal them all here. However there is one practice that may have seen its last days and is today on its way to oblivion. This is the way imagination mixes with reality to produce the effects of hero worship that is as ceremonial as it is an integral part of our lives.

 

The American experience did away with royalty … in doing so they severed their relations with a hugely ceremonial aspect of what we are in our social identities. Instead it raised the grand experience of the virtuous angels of individualism. This has gone against the heroic and ritualized practices of our past where fondness of memory preserves the existence of Archons or former rulers.

 

It must be submitted that the angels represent the lives of modern societies and brings a present and conscious perception of the issues. They face the stalwart Archons in our intuitive passions and negotiate for a substitution of self control. Such encounters are often rowdy where they lack an informed manner of dealing with each other. The dangers are very real.

 

Nature attempts a solution by engaging the comic nature of the two sides. A sense of humor is indispensable and is a great disarming agent. On account of this, such conflicts are minimized and isolated to skirmishes or willful tragedies limited by measure. But a greater effort is needed thereafter to stabilize it as norm.

 

In an age of transformation, such as we have witnessed in these times, such propensities for conflict need a finer management. This is in the very volition of the individual and encompasses their understanding of what is just, fair and equitable. Each of us is called upon to make the call in our own lives.

 

The Archons date to a time when we lived in dreams and death was a distant mirage … leading in some cases to the belief in eternal life of the body. In consequence we may have shown total disregard for the body, death, pain and loss. Along with that we also gave up beauty, love and adoration for the joys of life. Today we are asked to account for that attitude and to bring a resolution to the realm of the undead for the knee-jerk rigor mortis of the ephemeral bodies that continue with us.

 

Its not unlike the horror movies we sometimes see on the screen. This however is real or as real as it gets. Although the price of disdain is assigned in blood, the view of it takes a remedial note of bleeding the patient as cure. In plain language that means we may get hurt if we don't create a response.

Reviews

[Shivam Murari]

I never knew that royalty dominance existed in the US too. Though it is an article and not a story, I wonder why W.C. doesn't offer choice to choose Article as the type. And I so much agree with you saying comic nature to be taken as one of the two sides of the coin. Though I don't get who or what are Archons, its well written. Effective use of language.