1. In Elementalist philosophy, there are two meanings to life.
2. The lesser of the two, the Minor Aspiration, is personal.
3. The greater of the two, the Major Aspiration, is superpersonal.
4. This Major Aspiration applies to every person, no matter whether or not they accept it.
5. The Major Aspiration of every living being is to entertain the gods.
6. The Major Aspiration reflects the ultimate Will of God: to be entertained.
7. Not knowing suffering or ignorance, God experienced boredom in God’s natural state, and it was to alleviate this boredom that God dreamed up the Great Fractal.
8. God dreamed up the Great Fractal and, so as to best explore it, split Godself up into an infinite number of fragments. Each of these fragments is an individual consciousness.
9. You, the reader, are one of these infinite fragments of consciousness.
10. The contents of your consciousness are the path taken on your journey through the Great Fractal.
11. In accordance with the Third Tenet, the Great Fractal is understood to be the eternal and infinite interplay of the dance between masculine and feminine and the battle between good and evil. This is, in the simplest possible terms, the formula for the entertainment of the gods.
12. In much the same way that we humans are fascinated and entertained by the dramas of others, so too are the gods entertained by our struggles and travails.
13. There’s little difference between a human being reading a book such as Anna Karenina and a higher-dimensional being observing the family dramas of a group of humans on Earth.
14. The best reason for anyone to do anything is to entertain the gods.
15. Therefore, any person who has lived in such a manner as to have caused the gods to gaze upon them is esteemed.
16. It cannot ever be clear precisely how the gods are best entertained, but it’s not supposed to be clear, because that would be boring.
17. If the Major Aspiration is to entertain the gods, and if the gods are like us but greater, it follows that the gods are best entertained by godlike heroism.
18. The heroism that entertains the gods is best expressed in the overcoming of challenges and obstacles.
19. Some of the most heroic actions one can undertake are those in service of one’s Minor Aspiration. A wholehearted attempt to achieve one’s Minor Aspiration has a good chance of also achieving one’s Major Aspiration.
20. A child born crippled is not born into any shame in the eyes of the gods, as long as it overcomes. The gods are more entertained by a cripple who overcomes than by a prince who wastes his advantages.
21. The gods are more entertained by those who unexpectedly overcome than by any amount of stagnant grandeur or wealth.
22. Ultimately, the gods are most entertained by will, which is why will is represented by mercury as the element immediately below the divine gold.
23. A sufficient concentration of will sends a signal that passes through space and time, and which the gods perceive like a sound wave in dimensions above, calling them to pay attention.
24. This is why it is said that “Fortune favours the brave”: because the gods favour the willing.
25. A person can reject the Major Aspiration if they like – they have the freedom to do so.
26. They can elevate their Minor Aspiration to a position higher than their Major Aspiration any time they wish to.
27. But the beauty of the Major Aspiration is that it applies even to people who explicitly reject it.
28. A person can explicitly declare that the favour of the gods is meaningless to them – and the gods will be just as well entertained by that person’s life. Perhaps even more so.
29. Insofar as it’s meaningful to judge other people for behaving correctly or otherwise, it’s best to judge whether their behaviour serves their Major Aspiration.
30. It’s usually pointless to ask if a person is behaving morally, because morality depends on the fashions of the time and place, and is more a function of who seized power last than of any objective truth.
31. The imperative to entertain the gods, however, is eternal.
32. The Major Aspiration is an imperative that transcends not only times and places but also dimensions.
33. All Elementalists aspire to entertain the gods, and to that end aspire to overcome any and all challenges, no matter how difficult.
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This chapter is an excerpt from Elemental Elementalism, the foundational scripture of the new religion of the Age of Aquarius.
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