‘The Zero Meridian’

James LaFond's Impressions of The Forest Passage by Ernst Junger: Pages 31-67

“Everything can become an object of fear.”
-The Forest Passage, 30:2

Junger continues to drive deeper into the question of modernity through metaphor.

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-Fear is a man’s partner in his inner dialogue

32
-Dissenter rises above the animal
-God spark asleep within man

33
-Q
-Suffering slave millions
-Q
-Cry to heaven

34
-Exterior social illusion
-Myth
-Q
-Mighty fictions of the times

35
-Select minority prefer danger to servitude
-Time versus transcendence [Evola’s sacred tension]

36
-Individual wiser than organizations
-Reciprocity of collective antagonism

37
-Forest as the transcendent journey
-Ship as the journey confined within Time
-Banishment random in civilization

38
-Ancient banishment
-Modern banishment

39
-Reconnecting with myth [stepping out of Time]
-The Raft of the Medusa
-Modern military forms

40
-Fully autarchic powers: USA & USSR
-Soviet dilemma: Russia in the Forest, Soviet in the Ship [in and out of Time]
-Masks of power

41
-Demonic and zoological fears of humanity
-Meaning and desirability of freedom
-Politics as a fool’s errand

42
-Under the wire
-Freedom and Time
-Q

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-Individual = sufferer, knower, judge
-Utopia = termite mound, an expression of hive instinct
-Military systems as the lightning that heralds the storm

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-The middle way
-From nationalism to globalism

45
-Joining or resisting the wolf pack
-Third element of human quality

46
-Catastrophe as freedom
-Forest in the myth of Gilgamesh

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-Heroes & forests
-Waste place quests
-Fate and man

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-Destiny, devaluation, music in man’s inner quest
-The uncanny secret

49
-Beyond the powers of Time [In Time]
-A Gnostic notion of the world
-The eternal shape-changing fears which shackle man

50
-Womb of being
-Dreamtime of high cultures

51
-Fear of death
-Gilgamesh & Psalm 90
-Sacrificing Truth
-Time’s defeat
-Theogony

52
-Christ as Herculean-Dionysian fusion
-Community, unity of earth and sun powers
-Socrates and the Stoics

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-Victories must be ever re-won
-Daimonion as forest
-Modern education systems dedicated to cultivating fear as social control mechanism

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-Solitary souls, islands of truth
-Modern man as mere zoological being

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-Rejection of liberalism
-Church as museum
-Church as state

56
-Zoological political arrangements as deserts
-Doubt, pain, nihilism

57
-Dialogue between man and vid
-Machines as the witnesses of Time

58
-Loneliness, quality, consciousness

59
-Political prison diaries as messages in a bottle
-Churches as besieged refuges

60
-Creative forces as a wake
-Churches as organs of tyranny

61
-Science emerging as religion of zoological man
-Higher worlds and inner erosion

62
-Theologians
-Wasted city zones [predicts suburban soul blight]
-Illusory utopian states

63
-Profile of nihilistic priest as social traitor

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-Novelist as breakwater against social lies
-The faith negation of the “zero meridian”

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-Science makes of modern folk a wasteland race dumb to the truth
-The old freedom

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-Against the argument with evil
-Spiritual currents

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-Self-examination

(c) 2018 James LaFond