Fragment 9

To be able to use and gain the benefits of Aten, we must learn how to bind Aten. We must make Aten our servant, instead of our master. By Aten I am talking about the law of non-conterdiction. Oddly enough it is the philosopher Immanuel Kant that shows us the method for binding Aten. Kant says that the law of non-contradiction cannot go beyond obsernations; that beyond observations Aten leads into Illusion. Which Kant calls: Transcendental Dialectic. Kant should have also added that Aten or the law of non-contradiction is also determined by the aim of the classifications we are interested in. Kant realized that the objective world is a creation of reason. And that reason resides in the subject, and not the object. The categories of Kant are innate in the subject, or individual people. In simpler terms, humans impose reason on the world, reason is not intrinsic to the cosmos. That is why we can use reason to sort out what we know, but cannot use reason to come up with new knowledge. This is also the purpose of Kant's antinomies. That reason can be used to come to contradictory positions. That through the use of reason we can prove that the cosmos had a beginning, or that the cosmos is eternal; is one of Kant's examples in the antinomies. This means that depending on what initial settings we give Aten, we can come up with contradictory conclusions. This is of great importance in our attempt to bind Aten, and use him for our purposes. Aten should never be used to go beyond present observations. If one cannot resist the attempt to do so, the resulting theory should be regarded as speculation, and not certain truth. Aten like the other gods should be a resource for humans; not a master. It is interesting to note that total submission to a god, only came about with monotheism. the traditional gods of polytheism never asked for unquestioning submission of the human will. Instead they acted more in partnership with humans to achieve a desired goal of both god and human.Venus for love, Mars for victory in battle are examples. The old gods had limited aims. We must now go beyond Kant and examine the role of aim or goal. The polytheistic gods are intentions; goal directed activity. A way to look at ehe world to achieve a desired end. Mars was to achieve victory in battle. So those that invoked Mars as their homunculus (guiding spirit) were trying to direct their internal, and external energies, and resources to achieve victory. A limited aim that could be dropped after the goal was achieved. The ancient Romans would close the temple of Mars when they were not at war. One did not go to the temple of Venus for the wisdom of Minerva. Aten also has a goal, and his goal is classification, but we use him for much more. We can set Aten by our aims. This can clearly be seen in the classification of primates. We get one classification of primates when we set the operator as origin (D.N.A.), and another classification when the operator is function. Some members of the primate family change their classification scheme, when a different operator is used. It must be noted that function and origin are the only two operators that can be used for objective classification. Myth uses physical and emotional resemblances to connect objects, or events. This leads into the biggest troubles with Aten, and monotheism. All monotheistic religions want to be universal, in other words to classify everyone. This fact is clearly seen in Christianity, Islam, and Marxism. All the above religions use different operators in their classification of the world, and claim to be the one true objective order of the cosmos. To sum up we must bind Aten, if he is not to be our master, but a useful servent. The way to do this is not to use the law of non-contradiction to made supposed objective pronouncements on the objective order of the cosmos. Instead classification should be viewed as a result of a desired aim, and the aim of the classification should be clearly stated at the outset. Only in this way can Aten be a useful partner for humans, instead of a divine tyrant. a Necromancer