Post

More from @thepalmerworm

the palmer worm 🌲mother, wife,choral conductor.

@thepalmerworm

Jun 24

🧵The Collapse of the Axial Room
A Forensic Fable on Metaphysical Humility

The Chamber

There was a chamber called the Axial Room. It was sealed from above, below and beyond. Within it, every variable was controlled; temperature, light, speech, movement. All that could be measured was believed to exist; all that could not be measured was declared irrelevant, if not dangerous. At the center of this room stood a man called The Constructor. He was not a tyrant by his own reckoning. He considered himself a liberator; one who had cast off all superstition, all metaphysical impositions, all gods. He said;

“We do not believe. We create. What is not constructed by us has no authority.”

The room was bright. Not because of sunlight (there were no windows) but because of the overhead brilliance of engineered clarity. Mirrors lined the walls. Data screens gave constant feedback. All knowledge was to be generated within. Meaning was declared and Law was programmed. Morality was coded into behavioural systems. Truth was what remained after consensus was “managed”.

2/ The Creed of Control

The Constructor’s creed was simple;
“There is no above. Nothing higher than reason.”
“There is no below. Nothing more basic than perception.”
“There is only progress; spiralling upward and forward.”

Everything else was a residue of what was termed ‘religious pathology’. The Constructor mocked those who spoke of metaphysical grounding, moral objectivity, or divine order. To him, those were projection mechanisms; coping systems for inferior minds. The future belonged to constructivists; those who understood that meaning must be engineered, not received. He had no need for metaphysical humility, because he believed there was nothing outside the system that could demand it. Humility, in his eyes, was submission to illusions and illusions were obstacles to be removed.

3/ The Auditor

At irregular intervals, a figure known as The Auditor entered the Axial Room. He never stayed long, and he never issued commands. He asked questions;

“On what ground does this room stand?”
“Did you design the logic by which your reasoning proceeds?”
“What sustains the energy that maintains this chamber?”

The Constructor grew irritated by these interruptions. He dismissed the Auditor as a mystic; a lingering shadow of the old world.

“All we need is evidence,” he replied. “Everything real is measurable and rationally calculable.”

The Auditor nodded.

“And by what authority do you declare intelligible, the measure of the real?”

No answer came. The Simulants, who echoed the Constructor’s frameworks, began to stall, unsure how to parse the question.

Read 9 tweets

the palmer worm 🌲mother, wife,choral conductor.

@thepalmerworm

Jun 23

🧵Constitutional Liberty ≠ Liberty to Destroy the Constitution

Key Principle from Natural Law & the Founders:

Liberty is not license. Freedom of religion does not include the “freedom” to destroy liberty itself. The First Amendment protects religious exercise within the bounds of moral and civil order. It does not protect practices or ideologies that subvert Natural Law, deny the moral structure of reality, or seek to replace the source of legitimate authority (the People under God) with the State, Market, or Mind.

2/ Natural Law as the Boundary

James Wilson (Founding Father and moral realist) taught:

“Law must rest upon the eternal foundation of justice.”
(Lectures on Law)

Religious liberty is bounded by Natural Law. If a religion denies truth (e.g. relativism, hermetic ‘polarity’…) erases the image of God in man (e.g. materialism, pantheism), or promotes spiritual hierarchy that violates equality (e.g. theosophical Christ-consciousness), or calls for legal supremacy of a church, race, or caste - then - it is not protected as true religious liberty, but becomes a political weapon cloaked as religion.

Natural Law Test:

Ask of any religion or system:
Does it affirm or destroy moral conscience?
Does it uphold the equal moral agency of the People?
Does it protect objective truth and justice?
Does it affirm the natural rights of others?

If the answer is no, it’s not religious liberty - it’s civilizational sabotage.

3/ Subversive “Religions” = Trojan Horses

Some ideologies today pose as religions, but are Esoteric political systems (Theosophy, Christ Consciousness),
Totalitarian cosmologies (Radical Islamism, State Shinto, Woke pseudo-spirituality), Emanationist hierarchies (Gnosticism, New Age ascensionism) and Psycho-spiritual engineering programs (UN One World Religion, Gaia cults).

They displace the People as the source of authority and erase truth by calling all systems “equal”. They coerce via shame, initiation, or identity manipulation and dismantle the real moral order under the guise of “tolerance”. These are not protected expressions under the Constitution because they seek to eliminate the very framework that allows religious liberty to exist. That ought to be evident!

Read 5 tweets

the palmer worm 🌲mother, wife,choral conductor.

@thepalmerworm

Jun 21

🧵OBJECTIVE VALUES ≠ ONTOLOGICAL REALISM

People assume “Objective Values” means that values are grounded in something outside the individual’s opinion; therefore they assume it must mean eternal truths, natural law, or God-given rights. But here’s what it actually means in systems like Perry’s “New Realism” (or Rand’s Objectivism):

“Objective” means values can be described, classified, or derived from rational observation of effects. What’s “real” is what works within a system. “Objectivity” is measured by coherence, utility, or consensus within a human-defined structure. This is epistemological realism only; rights, dignity, or value are granted conditionally, based on performance, function, or consent.
open.substack.com/pub/escapekey/…

2/ What’s Missing?

💡Ontology

That is; the recognition that man has a nature, a fixed essence and a teleological orientation that cannot be revoked, redesigned, or replaced. Without ontological realism there is no foundation for “inalienable rights”, no basis for conscience, no justification for limits on state or expert power and no “self-evident” truths - only engineered consensus.

Objectivism Does the Same, claiming that “reason” reveals objective truth, but reason is disconnected from ontological being. Objectivist ethics are rationalist-derivative and conditioned by performance, not grounded in the inviolable nature of the person. As with Perry, this leads to morality as behavioural output, rights as conditional recognitions and sovereignty as system-conformance.

3/ Why This Deception Works

Because the term “objective” is used as linguistic bait. It mimics Natural Law language while replacing its metaphysical foundations. People think they are being offered Truth, Order, Moral Clarity; but they are receiving Management, Compliance Ethics and Behavioural metrics.

Veilcraft - The “Objective” Trap; systems like Perry’s “New Realism” use the word objective to imply metaphysical grounding, but in fact sever all metaphysical roots; anchoring values in system-defined functions rather than being (ontology). This is how moral economy becomes moral technocracy.

Read 5 tweets

the palmer worm 🌲mother, wife,choral conductor.

@thepalmerworm

Jun 19

🧵
The Abolition of Man (C.S. Lewis) offers several passages that directly illuminate the futility of demanding moral integrity, civic virtue, or fidelity to truth from public institutions that have been systemically stripped of the metaphysical foundation necessary to sustain such traits. Here are key excerpts and how they relate to our civic incapacity to defend itself against subversion and infrastructure coup d’état:

2/
“We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise.”

“We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”
(The Abolition of Man, Chapter 1)

This is Lewis’s most direct statement of the systemic contradiction. Institutions have been philosophically neutered; through the abandonment of objective moral order (Natural Law, Logos, telos). Yet we expect integrity, loyalty, courage and reason from these very same bureaucracies and public servants. This is precisely the condition of our civic, educational and legal institutions; their very☠️formation denies the reality of the virtues they claim to uphold.

3/
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.”
(AoM) Chapter 1

The education system, having abandoned formation in moral realism, produces sterile technocrats, not stewards of liberty. Pedagogies formed by pragmatism and constructivism leave the soul unformed, emotionally barren and morally disoriented. These are the “geldings” now filling institutional roles; deserts, not jungles.

Read 20 tweets

the palmer worm 🌲mother, wife,choral conductor.

@thepalmerworm

Jun 17

1/ The Law of Noncontradiction (LNC) states:

“A thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect.”

But the Hermetic Principle of Polarity denies the fixity of identity, asserting that “A and not-A” can be two ends of a single scale. It collapses distinction into continuity, claiming all opposites are one in essence and redefines contradiction as apparent, not real. This is a direct metaphysical inversion of the LNC. It dissolves ontological clarity into psychological relativism and prepares the ground for:

Dialectical synthesis (Hegel, Marx, Lenin)
Postmodern ambiguity (Derrida, Foucault)
Behavioural manipulation (e.g., NLP, “grey logic”)
Technocratic fusion of opposites (order/chaos, liberty/control)

Downstream Operational Effects:

Once the Principle of Polarity replaces LNC truth becomes mutable; nothing is absolutely true or false - just perspective.
Moral categories collapse; good and evil become two “poles” of the same energy. Discernment breaks down; everything is “both-and,” never “either-or.” Manipulators thrive; sophists, dialecticians and technocrats can redefine reality situationally.

2/
The Hermetic Principle of Polarity is the esoteric root of the subversion of the Law of Noncontradiction. It redefines contradiction as illusion and replaces being with process. From this root, entire philosophical, political and educational systems have been built to confuse, invert and ultimately control.

/end

3/
Étienne Gilson exposed the collapse of metaphysical realism and logic in modern philosophy.

Richard Weaver in Ideas Have Consequences warned that denial of the LNC would usher in tyranny and anti-humanism.

David Stove in The Plato Cult and Roger Scruton in multiple works criticized modern logic-twisting philosophies for subverting truth.

Eric Voegelin noted the Gnostic deformation of reason in totalitarian ideologies; often using contradiction as a tool of “second realities.”

Founder James Wilson, in early American constitutional thought, upheld the LNC as essential to Natural Law, explicitly rejecting legal pragmatism and dialectical confusion.

But these voices are rarely taught; because the academy has itself become a Sophistic factory.

Read 16 tweets

the palmer worm 🌲mother, wife,choral conductor.

@thepalmerworm

Jun 16

https://twitter.com/bh0806/status/1541209470726021125

🧵It’s taken me about 3 yrs of working steadily to unpack this metaphysically dense, rich statement. Hopefully it won’t take others as long. In this thread I’ll break it down a little:

https://twitter.com/bh0806/status/1541209470726021125

2/ “The gnostic premise of the death of God…”

What it means:
This refers not simply to Nietzsche’s declaration (“God is dead”) but to the gnostic metaphysical operation beneath it. Gnosticism posits that the material world is a prison (to be transcended) and the God of creation (as in Genesis) is either false or lower than a secret “true” god behind or beyond being. This premise is not atheism in the modern sense, it’s metaphysical revolt; Promethean/Luciferian - ‘Melkor’ in intent and operation.

Why it matters:
To say “God is dead” in this context means that the source of order, truth, teleology and being itself is no longer recognized as real. It’s a metaphysical strike, not just theological.

💡 Gnostic Death of God = Displacement of Logos
(the ordering principle of reality, reason and truth)

This is not simply a rejection of ‘Religion’, or one Faith or another, of Ideology or Identity. This is the rejection of the very means by how we know anything about ourselves, our world and our relationship to all else. Our very ability to articulate and embody shared reality with another human being and even to acknowledge reality individually ourselves.

This isn’t a nostalgic hankering for subjective idealistic meaning - this is the fundamental rejection of knowledge and the means of accessing and articulating that knowledge.

3/ ”…has a fundamental meaning to the sciences…”

What it means:
Modern science was born from the classical (Aristotelian–Thomistic) and Christian assumption that God’s universe is orderly, knowable and real because it is created by Logos.

But once the Gnostic premise (God is not real, or God is hostile to reason and order) takes over, science detaches from being. It becomes an exercise in technique, not truth and manipulation, not participation.

💡 Once truth is no longer rooted in being, science becomes a control mechanism, as we are witnessing.

Read 9 tweets

Share this page!

Enter URL or ID to Unroll

the palmer worm 🌲mother, wife,choral conductor.

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

More from @thepalmerworm

the palmer worm 🌲mother, wife,choral conductor.

the palmer worm 🌲mother, wife,choral conductor.

the palmer worm 🌲mother, wife,choral conductor.

the palmer worm 🌲mother, wife,choral conductor.

the palmer worm 🌲mother, wife,choral conductor.

the palmer worm 🌲mother, wife,choral conductor.

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Send Email!