Description Dualistic thinking presents us with a profound problem.
The basic polarity of Good/Bad is the driving force behind most human conflict, where a potentially fertile opposition crystallizes into enmity and the enemy becomes a demon, totally evil and no longer qualified for human compassion or understanding.
This is widely recognised, and the traditional response is a call to unity - either in the form of a return to common basics, or an advance towards an higher synthesis.
This book presents a different approach.
It argues that unity, even in the form of a higher synthesis, is in essence a backward step that sacrifices the potential energy of duality for the peace and stasis of unity.
What is really needed is a move forward: from dualistic to trinitarian thinking.
This approach is literally a solution.
It is to seek a third principle, an analog of Mercury or the Universal Solvent that transforms a polarised and frozen duality into a flowing and dynamic trinity.
Pure conflict becomes transformed into a dance, or game.
It is to ask the question how differently would we see this situation if we had been brought up in a theology of God, Devil and Trickster (The Good The Bad The Funny)?The idea is explored in depth, as a philosophy, as a psychology, as a practical way to heal the divisions in society and in our selves.
The book provides practical suggestions for further work, including an entire revolutionary magical system based on a trinitarian instead of the traditional fourfold model.
Previously only circulated in manuscript form to a select circle of friends, this first public edition includes the full account of Ramsey Dukes' infamous Cybermass of Thrice Greatest Data-Hermes.
285 pages with five chymical plates by Louise Hodson plus over 60 diagrams in text.
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