Personal Note XXXV

Yahweh in (יהוה‎):
Moses and the Burning Bush

Should you have faith?
Friday – February 6, 2026

In my post about "knowledge", I wrote about knowing as opposed to faith, and if you want to find out more about knowledge, you should read that post and discard this one, and if you will you can always return to this post later.

    Should you have faith? Well, that's actually an easy question to answer, but only once you have a skillful understanding of "faith". From a theological and perhaps more importantly a metaphysical point of view, there's a difference between faith and knowing, and I've also covered this lightly in my post about "Temporal Power", and a good way of thinking about faith and knowledge is how temporal power relates to spiritual authority, and from this point of view it would be quite accurate to ascribe the quality, or really function of, faith to temporal power, whereas the quality/function of knowledge lies squarely and eminently in the hands to the spiritual authority, but I cannot dwell to long on this distinction since that would be outside the scope of this post. So, to answer the question in the heading "Should you have faith?": yes, if you do not possess the prerequisites for knowledge, in other words you lack the skill and the ability to see beyond your immediate domain, then you are better off with faith, but I should note that faith in and of itself is of little importance, since this tendency of faith is very much a westernized concept, which also ties into my post about fear the other day; I should also add that faith in the Western sense is not understood as "faith" in the East and not even in the Near East, but if you are a westerner and this is the closest conception you possess of the primordial tradition, then you are still better off with faith than without it, but it is a mistake to believe that faith and mere religiosity are and should be separated from the state, again an issues that I covered in my post about temporal power. Exactly what the nature of faith entails is actually not that different from the nature of simply being an agnostic, but I suppose that one could argue that the emphasis falls on different sides of a certain materialist border; at least who who holds in his heart a faith, can hope to see at some future and distant point the nature of the universe beyond the material. But still, this idea of simply holding a faith isn't much different from simply operating out of a notion of mere negation, that thing that the entirety of the Western world is built upon, if something cannot be detected, measured and quantified, then that thing does not exist, negativism. Another thing about faith that I dislike is the fact that faith is also built on hope, something I again covered in my post from the other day about fear, and to me hope is simply an impulse that is motivated by fear, and at the very best holding a faith is a very rudimentary and materialist form of ascension, but ascension it is nonetheless. Verily, just because something is subordinate to some other domain and/or principle, doesn't minimize the importance of this hierarchical relationship, however unskillful it may be. Of course, most of these confusions having to do with piety stem from the aforementioned disconnection of the modern world with the source, this making faith and "religiosity" a merely private, individual, and compartmentalized matter having little to do with your role in the societal organism; effectively this is an inversion of the cosmological order which has been bound to promote social breakdown and disruption, something that is treated as a "trend" or an "infantile disorder", read the end of history.

    On a personal level, this is supposed to be a "Personal Note", I cannot say about myself that I hold faith of any kind, and generally speaking, there are no religious and exoteric traditions in the Western world that speaks to me either, but this is not to say that I'd much better prefer a society void of all metaphysical elements, even if they are merely spiritual outwardly. I do however on the other hand, find the traditions of the Near East, the Middle East, and the Far East to be much more interesting as they most of them still enjoy a somewhat spiritually "aware" character and especially since most of the practitioners of these spiritual forms seem to hold a faith borne out of tradition and reverence for the celestial paradise, as opposed to Westerns obsession with the terrestrial paradise, and this is very much expressed in the outwardly forms of Islam. This is however not to say that I am interested in some kind of conversion, but I am interested in the fact that the world still not completely dominated by Western notions has a somewhat steadfast relationship with a revealed doctrine. Can this be said about the Western world? No it cannot. But I am much more interested in knowledge than what I am in faith, and at the moment I don't have any interest in getting swept up in the commotion of "brotherhood", so any suggestion that I should convert must be dismissed, at least for now.

    Lastly, I should clarify that faith is important and that for most men this is a good thing, but the way in which faith has been twisted into a kind of collectivism of joy and hope in the face of the meaningless character of the material order is of no interest to me, since this is a kind of false faith that constitutes, at least in some traditions, a form of blaspheme. Indeed, the collective of the Western "priesthood" is really a collective of false prophets and charlatans – these people are of no interest to me since they only promote noise and confusion. Again, this doesn't mean that the Church or any other religious institution in the West serve no purpose for ordinary men, but for me the peasant populism of Protestantism and "LGBTQ"-friendly Catholic priests can only serve to add to a kind of self confusion, an "auto-confusion", that I wish not to experience. For me knowledge is paramount and faith should always be subordinate to this paramount principle of supra reason.

Reginald Drax – February 6, 2026.