Personal Note XXVII

Yahweh in (יהוה‎):
Moses and the Burning Bush

Further thoughts on the year to come |
Friday – January 2, 2026

In my New Year's Eve Message I may have come across as almost a bit rude and crude, but I can assure you that this was by design: it's true, according to science, that after all we're just a bunch of tropical apes. I've got no need or intention to challenge this view, but I guess I can say this: at least this approach, steady as she goes, is the approach for any man that seeks independence, even for the man that has no intention to walk towards the light. But as I also stated in my second most previous post: I've got no intentions to change myself, and I've got no major promises to make. Why do people make promises at the end of the year: I mean what have all of these people been waiting on? Well, they've really been waiting on permission to fail, that's what all this is really about. See, if you intend to change yourself, may that be spiritually or materially, then you don't have to begin that change in the remote promise of the future. No, if you actually intend to change, that change starts now and indeed your entire body and your entire mind is focused on this change, and in this way you are approaching your wish to change, evolve, or become with skill, skillful means. Yes indeed, this is yet another disease, another sickness really, of the modern world: people can't really overcome their material needs, and their addiction to the fleeting things of life, their addiction really, and this means that they need to grant themselves permission to fail. Yes, we live in a very quantitative and fast-phased world, where people expect change to happen very quickly, and once that fails to occur, people give up, take the example of obesity etc,. No, people do not want to focus and attain new ways of approaching the world, and that means that the beastly form is their only option. In this sense people become locked into a non-choice: either you leave the material world behind or you embrace the beast, the former requires much dedication and hard practice, also something most modern men lack. But a new year's resolution is perhaps practical for most men, since it's always better and more sound and just more even to start changing yourself with the times. No, this is yet another symptom: you're not really deciding for yourself; you're allowing modern time to decide for you. Growth requires effort and effort doesn't care about modern time; really nothing almost in this world is instantaneous and everything is essentially part of the same process that is continually unfolding – the creation. But yes, years and calendars are practical for they allow men to easily compartmentalize the world, something modern men really like, and yes while this provides usefulness in the material ordering of the world, it also creates totalitarianism, because it requires individualism, individualism requires a lack of knowledge about the world. Yes, you don't understand the world, but you may understand some part of the material domain, but the material domain isn't the whole world; this is the essential assault on sacred values that has been ongoing since the inception of our era, the Kali Yuga.

    Enough about time and that somewhat crude New Years Eve Message. Look, I don't believe that you can't allow yourself to change with the new year and with the times, but if you truly seek to change yourself you need to answer the question. The question is this: what have you been waiting for? Indeed, I'm just repeating myself, but I didn't answer that question, and that's because it's not a question for me to answer. Change comes from within before you may act out that change in the material domain. If you can't develop skills and if you can't develop true and sincere dedication, you will fail, and indeed this whole material order is constituted in such a way that all your energy and motivation, your vital essence, is slowly being sapped away. Yes, it's hard to change in a world that doesn't require you to change. Why change when nothing good will come of it? Yes, it could be that nothing bad won't come of your change either, but people aren't usually incentivized by negatives; people prefer to seek out the great unknowns of life because of reward. At least this is how modern men rationalize the whole thing, and that's actually why this entire post is essentially meant for anyone and everyone, because you don't have to be particularly enlightened to understand that the drive for evermore and ever larger quantities is an essentially empty pursuit and that this in and of itself isn't motivating enough, not even for the most advanced beasts, and indeed the most advanced beasts have no motivation whatsoever.

    Enough with this too. If you seek motivation then really go read some other blog or do something else, because my intention is not to motivate. Motivation is not a great quality and in the end you will crash and burn, but in modern times you've been taught that motivation is important. I will say this about motivation: motivation, even in material pursuits, is really only of very limited initial value and after that the only thing that matters and truly counts is dedication and consistency; in the end motivation accounts for almost nothing, it's just another modern and highly overrated quality deeply connected to the notion of individualism. Motivation is also an excuse to leave you behind, and really stuck, here in the material world, because after all you'd "succeed" if you had more motivation.

    Ah, all of these things are again reasons why I choose steady as she goes and why nothing will fundamentally change because people in general pretend that the numbers 2, 0, 2, and 6 hold some kind of almost divine importance: if you seek change you must first find it within, and this is truly when you will experience freedom and autonomy. Hahaha, and for all this talk of individualism and self-expression: could these tendencies ironically not be more profoundly typical? I don't think so. I don't think so.

Reginald Drax – January 2, 2026.