June 15th

The alchemical insight was that the basest metals can be transformed into something like pure gold. Therefore hatred, destruction, the most ferocious vilification, are all vital components in any search for purity.

Remember that every contradiction contains tension from which comes huge amounts of energy. That's why paradoxes are so potent, so rich.

For example, think about the implications of the fact that it takes a kind of faith to renounce faith. The dialectic is open-ended, see? It can proceed from despair to hope but also back again. It reaches into heaven and down into hell; it's a beautiful thing really.