As products of the split between man’s soul and body, there are two kinds of teachers of

the Morality of Death: the mystics of spirit and the mystics of muscle, whom you call the

spiritualists and the materialists, those who believe in consciousness without existence

and those who believe in existence without consciousness. Both demand the surrender of

your mind, one to their revelations, the other to their reflexes. No matter how loudly they

posture in the roles of irreconcilable antagonists, their moral codes are alike, and so are

their aims: in matter-the enslavement of man’s body, in spirit-the destruction of his mind. Read the rest of this entry »