The Dark Age.
335. The forces of darkness can gain power in the world only because they have already gained power in the soul.
336. That which surrounds man is the reflection of his inner world.
337. With a pinch of salt one could say that everything maintained in the world at present is false or utterly valueless or explicitly represents some kind of dark counter-value.
339. What prevails at present is so bad that what is slightly better than this still cannot be considered good at all.
342. The present time as a modern time, that is, an antitraditional time in the extreme, is the time of negative dominances. And it holds true even on the level of the most base profanities: for example, a young and healthy man feels bad much more often than good, he is much rather depressive, sad and gloomy than luminous, happy and joyous.
344. Modernity is not a stiffened, static reality, but a dynamic process, which is continuously working to make itself darker and darker.
345. Descent is not merely a monotonous descent. Phases of sudden halts, sharp falls and slow descents are changing - but these take place in the process of a monotonous descent.
346. Exactly as in the demential phase of paralysis progressiva there are lucida intervalla, but they come about more and more rarely and are less and less luminous, in just the same way in the last phase of the Kali-yuga there can be lucida intervalla, but those who examine processes in their total coherence cannot be deceived by these.
347. Modernity is maximal just now.
348. Once darkening could be perceived in fifty or a hundred years. Now it is perceivable every five years.
350. An age, which gives much more chance for darkness than for light, is quite justly considered damned.
351. Nothing illustrates better the nature of an age than that which succeeds in it: the higher or the lower, the good or the bad, the angelic or the demonic. And today - looking at it from a »bookmaker’s« point of view - the victory of the worse is incomparably more probable than that of the better.
352. He whose aim is decline, failure and fall can be sure of his success.
353. All that is directed toward fall starts with infinitely great advantages.
355. At present darkness does not live in reservations, but is flourishing everywhere - whereas spirituality does not even live in reservations.
356. In the past five hundred years a new type of man has appeared, who rejoices if something or someone turns out to be valueless, base or non-existent. Since only a degenerated type is capable of rejoicing if the world gets poorer.
357. Most of the modern theories are false to such an extent that those views which are directly contradictory to them are false as well.
358. Most of the modern conceptions are false to such an extent that it is not enough to change a modern concept for one which is opposed to it by 180 degrees, but it has to be replaced with one that is opposed to it by 540 degrees.
359. Kali-yuga cannot leave any disciplines unturned: it is massively present in each. 361. Today’s man has gradually built a denatured world for himself: he has already been cut off from the supernatural, and now he is about to take leave of the natural. 369. Wherever man goes with his earthly tools, he always takes his earthly conditions within himself.
370. The degeneration of the power of money is now beyond the realm of money as a concrete means of payment.
371. There is only one more demonic form of payment than timewage and that is piecewage. While in the case of the former the mere quantity of time spent on working is taken into consideration, in the case of the latter it is the number of the producer’s products.
372. Although journalism is incapable even of creating dark counter-ideas, the satanic forces which operate behind journalism are already capable of it. 377. Despite all its losing track, deterioration and dissipation, today’s world and the tendencies operating in it show one direction: the direction of nothingness. - SOLUM IPSUM: Metaphysical aphorisms, by András László.
