This is a translation of one of my mini-essays over at Fragmente.
The world has lost its radiance. When exactly must remain unclear. At best we can note that the pressure of an all too visible strand of our history has merged with the pull of a dark future, and thus robbed us of our inner glow: the gentle, subtle, in its delicacy all-pervading sense, which depends on everything, points to all possibilities, with which we can unite in a decisive act of will.
But it would not be quite right to claim that our inner radiance can also re-light the world. Rather, it is precisely the darkness, the raw grimace of the Undead and their outpourings, which first leads us to that inner radiance. We may hope, however, that the world brighten up with us. Because our radiance allows a glance at other, less visible strands in our history, and another, brighter, but mostly just as invisible future.
When our inner glow is missing, something like this happens: caught between addiction to explanation and addiction to a fantasy world that corresponds to the given assumptions of how the outside should be, we forget to see what is. And when we do see it, it causes us great grief: precisely because we hunt for explanations like startled chickens, and because we desire so much not to perceive what is happening in front of our minds.
We see, for example, that people are apparently unequal in their ability to resist the constraints of conformity of their time. This ability demands to be in touch with that which points beyond all and into the most distant times. Only this observation does not fit our assumptions about the equality of people. Nor does it fit the usual explanations for which our minds tend to gasp as if hypnotized: biological evolution, God's creation out of abstract supernatural space, the static and clumsy lever of the dominant intellectual heritage: just a myth, cleverly camouflaged as the compulsion of the factual, which can only develop radiance in the prism of a radiant man himself.
This, too, is part of the darkness.
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