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righteousness justifies abominable injustices endlessly. Socrates and Jesus are perhaps among the few who have been closest to pure reason, pure soul and pure heart. So image upon image cast, Aristotle and his successors have constructed only what they could out of these shadowy mal-formations in this psycho- dellic patrix: patria as world-slogan, as the reasoned reason behind the bold and inconic eagle that connotes the delicacy of torment: «Or By Reason or By Force» thus replacing the age of «Post Tenebras Lux» («After the Shadows, Light») always entwined with, and overshadowed by «Aut Consilliis Aut Ense» (Or by Counsel or by Spade").10 O how Cronus of the Cave devours and feasts on his children! One ought to ponder whether human beings become beasts in order not to be devoured: to purge themselves of so much nastiness, of so much darkness, of so much pain: the unreal. Our destiny is the illusion of reality, doing rather than being, thus we endlessly circumgyrate between these two spheres 3⁄4 Heaven and Hell 3⁄4 our cavernal reality.
Had Aristotle looked up at «el cielo» from a different angle, a whirlwind, from star upon star, a spinwheel, as if from wind to wind to skin on skin, each star a pore whispering those secret cadences, its colorful triangles like flowers forever succumbing on his dermis like love and merging into one, so as for a moment, not dwell in its cause, but just intoxicate himself with
10 So-called democratic Chilean slogans placed on national emblems.
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