The Ever-Present Origin - Michael Goodnight - Editor

Even though we may be unable to do anything against such phenomena,we can at least avoid becoming submissive to them. We can view themwith a certain detachment, secure in the knowledge that a deficientacquisition of unity does not lead to strength but rather of necessity, andnaturally, to brutal power and, ultimately, to impotence.After what has been said, examples of an overly mythical conception comeeasily to mind. Wherever we encounter an immoderate emphasis on theimagistic, the ambivalent, the psychic - on unbridled phantasy,imagination, or power of fancy - we may conclude the presence of adeficient mythical attitudethatthreatens the whole or integrality.And, too, wherever we are caught up in the labyrinthine network of mereconcepts, or meet up with a one-sided emphasis on willful or voluntaristicmanifestations or attempts at spasmodic synthesis (trinitary, tripartite,dialectical), isolation, or mass-phenomena, we may assuredly conclude thepresence of a deficient mental, that is, extreme rationalistic source.This manner of observing the manifestations which we encounter mustnot, however, be applied mechanically or indiscriminately; only theirimmoderation orexcess are deficient. Where they emerge in moderationthese phenomena are today still efficient and effective. We must not losesight of this fact, for if we do we place ourselves into question. It is not themeasure alone which is decisive; it is the moderation contained inmeasure along with the immoderation, the measured as well as theimmeasurable as expressed in the root of the words measure and mass.This summary, then may have served to illustrate that:1) All structures constitute us;2) All structures must be lived commensurate with their constitutivevalues if we are to live a whole or integral life;3) No structure may therefore be negated; negation enters when onestructure or the other is overemphasized, whereby this accentuation istransferred to its deficient manifestations, which are always quantitative;4) Certain designations, ascriptions; and characteristic concepts attributedto the individual structures render their effectuality evident.With this result we come to the end of our chapter. The foundations thatconstitute each of us and thus also a possible new mutation may by nowhave become apparent at least to a certain extent. Nonetheless, before wecan turn to the possibilities and first manifestations of the newconsciousness or the new mutation, we must address in three shortchapters some additional measures in order to precludemisunderstandings.We cannot forego these measures since among the new and modern54