Men of the Infinite

Who are the Men of the Infinite?

The true Man of the Infinite is not bound by labels: he is more than happy to be called a theist or an atheist as long as the concepts behind such labels give expression to his infinite nature. He is an atheist in that he rejects all finite gods, which hold, for him, no philosophic significance, but a theist in that he embraces the infinitude of Reality and is perfectly comfortable with calling that Reality, 'God'.

He doesn't get caught up in petty squabbles about 'strong' and 'weak' forms of atheism; he does not concern himself with the question of whether agnostics ought refer to themselves as atheists; he is above all such trivial disputation. He alone concerns himself with those matters of ultimate importance.

Whilst people of all metaphysical persuasions debate what they perceive as the finer points of their various beliefs, the Man of the Infinite goes immediately to the core issues; he does not waste his time in irrelevancies and false piety; he strips Reality bare and reveals its secrets - he penetrates to the depths.

The Man of the Infinite does not engage in philosophical politics. His motivation is pure. He is a thinker and a willer of Truth; he is no mere intellectual whose only concern is maintaining the causes of his pride in his intellect. Where might such a man rest his pride? In his ignorance, should he not have overcome it? Hardly. In the grand emptiness of Reality, then? Oh! How much folly springs from the very thought of it! There is nowhere for such a man to rest his pride therefore he does not bother with pride. He goes straight to willing, which knows nothing of pride other than the fact of its egotistical amenity. Such willing is the opposite and ultimate slayer of pride.

The Man of the Infinite is a world and a will unto itself. Such a world and will has no need of the callow bickering of those who have yet to even perceive the truth of their wretched ignorance and delusion. What lesser need could he have of the so-called 'ideas' of such ones?

He cares naught for what it means to be a 'Humanist'. His concern is with what it means to be human! He cares naught for what it means to be a 'Citizen'. His concern is with what it means to exist! He cares naught for what it means to have knowledge, to know 'facts', to be privy to this theory and that theory.

His only concern is how to be true in Nature.