Key Concepts

1 Law of Humus

The Law of Humus is the foundational principle according to which the sacred emerges from the decomposition of old beliefs , just as humus—this fertile soil—is born from the slow decomposition of organic matter.

Fertile oblivion is not just an inevitable phenomenon—it is the very condition of spiritual renewal. Without the decomposition of old forms, no new sacred meaning can emerge. The Law of Humus thus reveals a fundamental paradox: to preserve is to sterilize, to forget is to fertilize.

This implies a reversal of our relationship with memory and tradition. Religions, philosophies, and cultures do not live despite forgetting but thanks to it. Oblivion acts as selective agent : only what proves vital enough to be reinvented, reinterpreted, survives across generations.

Theoretical implications:

• Against archival obsession : total preservation of the past can sterilize the future
• Revaluation of loss : what is forgotten was perhaps not vital
• Creative oblivion : "not knowing" allows reinvention without being crushed by the weight of history

The Law of Humus thus suggests that true continuity of the sacred is not in exact transmission but in vital transformation .

2 Life

Life is not a simple biological phenomenon but a blind cosmic force, oriented toward complexification and transcendence . It is not a conscious being, but a dynamic process that explores all possible trajectories to escape its initial condition.

Life as cosmic becoming: Life is a process of perpetual overflow . From the first cells to humanity, it constantly pushes the boundaries of what is possible, not by conscious design but by relentless exploration. Like a river seeking the sea, it tries every crevice, every fissure to find an outlet toward the infinite.

The trap of the biological: Pure biology represents a loop—birth, reproduction, death. But Life "senses" that this cycle is a prison. It seeks to escape the simple cycle of survival through symbolic complexity, consciousness, and meaning creation. Humanity thus appears as the point where Life begins to touch something beyond itself .

Life and the sacred: The sacred is not external to Life—it is Life's attempt to name its own overflow. Gods, myths, and rituals are explorations by which Life tests the boundaries of the possible and precipitates forms of transcendence.

Key concepts:

• Blind orientation : Life has no plan but an irresistible impulse
• Symbolic overflow : through Man, Life escapes pure materiality
• Cosmic exploration : Life is a process of testing the limits of being

3 Autopoiesis

Autopoiesis (from Greek auto , self, and poiesis , creation) designates the capacity of a system to produce and maintain itself . Applied to spirituality, this concept reveals how beliefs and rituals perpetuate themselves by forgetting their own origins.

Spiritual autopoiesis: A religious or symbolic system is autopoietic when it manages to regenerate itself without needing to know its origin . The faithful practice rites whose initial meaning is lost, but this loss does not destroy practice—on the contrary, it allows perpetual reinterpretation, adaptation to new contexts.

Oblivion as engine: Forgetting the "why" of a ritual frees the "how." A tradition that knows its origin too well risks ossification; one that has forgotten can evolve, incorporate novelty, remain alive.

Example of autopoiesis: Christmas celebrations: few Christians know the pagan origins of the December 25 festival. This oblivion does not weaken the festival—it allows it to integrate new meanings, adapt to cultures, remain vital despite radical transformations of society.

Implications:

• Adaptive traditions : those that forget their origins survive better
• Danger of archaeology : excessive excavation can kill what still lives
• Perpetual reinvention : oblivion allows traditions to remain contemporary

Autopoiesis thus shows that spiritual life is not transmission of the identical but perpetual regeneration through transformation .

4 Man

Man is not an end in himself but a precipitator of meaning, a cosmic sonar . He is the medium through which Life explores the symbolic, tests the possible, and attempts to fertilize infinity.

Precipitator of meaning: Man is the point where meaning precipitates —like a chemical reaction where formerly dissolved elements suddenly crystallize. Through language, myths, and arts, he transforms the diffuse chaos of existence into structured forms, narratives, symbols.

Cosmic sonar: Humanity functions like a sonar system:

• It emits waves (myths, sciences, rituals, beliefs)
• These waves explore the invisible (the unknown, the infinite, the possible)
• The echoes returned map reality and orient future actions

This means that even "false" beliefs can be vitally true if they allow Life to cross a threshold, open a path, discover a new dimension of the real.

Man and the divine: Man is not creator of the divine but matrix . Through him, Life tests divine forms, explores transcendence, attempts a fertilization of infinity. The gods he invents are not illusions—they are explorations through which Life seeks its own overflow .

Implications:

• Humans as mediums : we are not ends but cosmic means
• Meaning as creative precipitation : we do not discover, we precipitate meaning
• Vital truth : a belief can be false but vitally necessary

5 God

God is not a pre-existing entity but a potentiality in gestation . He is the tangent by which Life launches toward infinity, the name given to the fertilization of infinity by humanity.

God in gestation: Rather than thinking of God as a creator, we must think of him as a creature in the process of being born . Life, through humanity, works to give birth to something that transcends it—a form of consciousness, meaning, presence that would be truly divine.

Tangent toward infinity: In mathematics, a tangent touches a curve at a single point and extends toward infinity. God is this line: the moment where Life, through Man, touches infinity and extends beyond itself. God is the name we give to this launch, to this improbable contact between the finite and the infinite .

Fertilization of infinity: Man, as cosmic sonar and meaning precipitator, "fertilizes" infinity through his invocations, beliefs, and rituals. This does not mean he creates the infinite—he makes it fertile, capable of producing something (God) rather than remaining pure void .

God is not:

• An omnipotent creator
• A person listening to prayers
• An eternal, immutable being

God is:

• A process, a becoming
• The potentiality of absolute meaning
• The name of Life's overflow toward transcendence

This radically transforms the theological question: it is no longer "does God exist?" but " is God being born? Are we participating in His gestation? "

6 Spiritual Selection

Spiritual selection is a process parallel to natural selection : just as only species adapted to their environment survive, only beliefs that favor the gestation of God and the complexification of conscious Life persist through the centuries.

Darwinian mechanism applied to the spiritual:

• Variation : humanity produces an immense diversity of beliefs, myths, rituals
• Selection : only those that increase vitality, meaning, spiritual complexity survive
• Heredity/Transmission : surviving beliefs are transmitted, adapted, reinvented

Selection criterion: A belief survives not because it is objectively true but because it:

• Increases the chances of Life's survival and complexification
• Produces meaning allowing individuals and communities to act
• Prepares the ground for the gestation of God (opens paths toward transcendence)

Example: The belief in an afterlife or karma is not "true" in a verifiable sense—but it profoundly structures human behavior, creates moral systems, allows the emergence of complex civilizations. It is therefore vitally true , even if metaphysically uncertain.

Implications:

• Pragmatism of beliefs : what matters is not metaphysical truth but vital efficiency
• Religious Darwinism : religions evolve like species
• Critique of dogmatism : a belief that no longer serves Life must disappear

Spiritual selection thus shows that theology is an evolutionary process, not a fixed revelation .

7 Truth and Belief

Vital truth is a belief that, whether objectively true or not , allows Life to cross existential thresholds. It precipitates the meaning necessary for action and roots humanity in the cosmos.

Vital truth vs. objective truth:

• Objective truth : corresponds to verifiable facts (scientific method)
• Vital truth : allows acting, living, transcending (pragmatic necessity)

These two truths are not opposed—they operate on different planes. A belief can be objectively false but vitally indispensable.

Example: The belief in free will. Neuroscience shows that our "decisions" are often determined by unconscious processes preceding our conscious awareness. Yet belief in our freedom is vitally necessary : without it, no morality, no responsibility, no will to act is possible. It is a vital truth even if it is a metaphysical illusion.

Belief as creative precipitation: Beliefs do not just describe the world—they create the conditions of its transformation . By believing in justice, we create justice. By believing in progress, we create progress. By believing in the divine, we create the conditions for God's gestation.

Implications:

• Functional truth : what matters is the effect produced, not metaphysical correspondence
• Creative faith : believing is not receiving a revelation but creating a reality
• Responsibility of beliefs : we must choose beliefs that favor Life, not those that sterilize it

This redefines the question of truth: " Is this belief true? " becomes " Does this belief allow Life to overflow, to transcend itself? "

8 Cosmic Sonar

The cosmic sonar is a fundamental metaphor : humanity functions like a system for exploring the invisible. Through myths, sciences, and arts, it sends waves into the unknown and receives echoes that map the possible .

Sonar mechanism:

• Emission : humanity sends waves (beliefs, theories, myths, rituals)
• Propagation : these waves penetrate the unknown, the invisible, the infinite
• Echo : part of the wave returns, carrying information about reality
• Interpretation : Man decodes echoes and adjusts his explorations

Diversity of emissions:

• Science : sends precise mathematical waves, receives quantifiable echoes
• Art : sends aesthetic, emotional waves, receives echoes of beauty and meaning
• Religion : sends sacred, symbolic waves, receives echoes of transcendence
• Philosophy : sends conceptual waves, receives echoes of coherence and truth

Invocation as sonic emission: When Man invokes God, prays, meditates, he emits a wave toward the infinite. This wave is not answered by a pre-existing entity—but it returns charged with an echo that transforms Man himself. Invocation creates presence by exploring absence .

Exploration of the possible: The cosmic sonar does not just map the existing—it explores the space of the possible . Some waves fall into voids, others reveal unsuspected continents. Humanity thus advances blindly, sending its waves into the unknown, discovering as it explores.

Implications:

• Exploratory function of Man : we are cosmic explorers
• Invocation as creation : calling is already making present
• Mapping the invisible : we make the unknown thinkable and navigable

9 Gestation of God

The gestation of God designates the cosmic process by which conscious Life works to give birth to a form of transcendence . Humanity is the womb of this uncertain gestation, and we do not know if God will truly be born, will be stillborn, or if the pregnancy will end in miscarriage.

God as potentiality: Unlike classical theological conceptions where God is eternal and immutable, here God is in the process of becoming . He is a potentiality that conscious Life attempts to actualize. This potentiality may or may not succeed—nothing is guaranteed.

Humanity as womb: We are not God's creatures—we are His womb. Through our beliefs, our invocations, our explorations of the sacred, we carry God in gestation . Each myth, each ritual, each form of transcendence is a contraction, a labor pain in this difficult birth.

Uncertain gestation: Nothing guarantees this birth will succeed:

• The gestation can end in cosmic miscarriage (humanity destroys itself before having given birth to God)
• God can be stillborn (a dead form of transcendence, sterile)
• The birth can succeed , producing an authentic form of transcendence that transforms reality

God's birth as existential event: If God were born, it would not be a metaphysical abstraction—it would be a transformation of the nature of reality itself . A leap where Life would finally overflow its biological limits to touch true infinity.

Our responsibility: This vision makes us responsible for the divine . We are not passive creatures awaiting salvation—we are active participants in God's gestation. Our choices, beliefs, and actions determine whether this birth succeeds or fails.

Implications:

• Evolutionary theology : God is not eternal but in the process of becoming
• Creative anthropology : Man is co-creator of the divine
• Cosmic angst : nothing guarantees the success of this gestation

10 Faith

Faith is not belief in the presence of God but experience of the place of His creative absence . It is the internal battlefield where anguish transforms into creative force.

Faith as experience of absence: Traditional faith believes in God's presence, in His grace, in His providence. Here, faith is reversed: it is experience of the place where God is not yet . This place is not a void—it is the space where His gestation is possible.

Creative absence: God's absence is not a lack—it is a creative potential . It is what allows humanity to work at His birth, to explore paths of transcendence, to fertilize the infinite. A present God would be a closed God—an absent God is an open God, still possible.

Internal battlefield: Faith is not serene—it is anguished struggle . It is the effort to transform the anguish of the abyss into creative force. It is holding firm in uncertainty, continuing to invoke despite the absence of response, maintaining the gestation despite doubts.

Faith and invocation: To have faith is not to wait for God—it is to call Him . Invocation is not prayer addressed to someone who hears—it is a sonic wave sent into the void, an exploration by which humanity tries to precipitate divine presence.

Difference from religious faith:

• Traditional faith : believes in God's presence and benevolence
• Creative faith : works at His birth despite His absence

Implications:

• Active faith : not passive acceptance but creative work
• Anguish as engine : anguish is not overcome but transformed
• Faith without guarantee : no reassuring certainty, only uncertain commitment

This faith is more demanding than traditional faith—it offers no consolation, no promise. But it opens the possibility of truly participating in the creation of the divine .

11 Cosmic Psychoanalysis

Cosmic psychoanalysis applies Freudian concepts to humanity's relationship with the divine : repression, castration, transgenerational trauma. It reveals how humanity both desires and fears the gestation of God.

The Cronos complex: In Greek mythology, Cronos (Saturn) devours his children for fear of being overthrown. Humanity does the same with its divine creations:

• It invokes God (creates Him potentially)
• But immediately destroys, criticizes, deconstructs its gods (devours them)
• For fear that a true God would surpass it, enslave it, negate it

Cosmic repression: Humanity represses its desire for the divine. It seeks transcendence but simultaneously fears it. This repression produces:

• Theological neuroses : obsessive rituals without meaning
• Sterile atheism : rejection of the sacred without alternative
• Compulsive materialism : frantic flight into consumption

Transgenerational trauma: Civilizations transmit their theological traumas:

• Massacres in the name of God
• Oppression of bodies and consciences
• Wars of religion

These traumas make contemporary humanity suspicious of any form of sacred. But repressing the divine does not make it disappear—it returns in pathological forms: fanaticism, nihilism, spiritual void.

Cosmic castration: In Freud, castration is the threat that structures the psyche. Here, cosmic castration is the terror that God, if born, would castrate humanity of its autonomy, its freedom, its will. This terror blocks gestation.

Therapeutic path:

• Recognize repression : humanity must admit its ambivalence toward the divine
• Work through trauma : face theological wounds without denial
• Overcome the Cronos complex : accept creating something greater than oneself

Implications:

• Theological pathology : humanity is neurotic in its relationship with the divine
• Necessary analysis : we must psychoanalyze our relationship with God
• Possibility of healing : by working through repression, we can allow true gestation

12 Temporal Races

Temporal races designate major mutations in the relationship to time, memory and the sacred that create different human forms . These are not biological but temporal, cultural, and spiritual discontinuities.

The First Man: The First Man is humanity before total archiving . He lives in fertile oblivion:

• Oral memory: stories transmitted, transformed
• Vital forgetting: only the essential survives
• Living myths: constantly reinvented narratives
• Cyclical time: return, renewal

The First Man accepts loss as condition of creation . He knows that oblivion is necessary for humus, for new growth, for divine gestation.

The Second Man: The Second Man emerges with digital revolution and total archiving . He seeks to:

• Preserve everything : total archive of memory
• Control time : planning, prediction, manipulation
• Eradicate oblivion : eternal memory, perfect traceability
• Sterilize the future : everything is already planned, calculated

The Second Man believes he can escape the Law of Humus . He seeks to be a "flower without roots, an angel freed from mud and graves"—but he forgets that all transcendence requires humus of immanence.

Historic rupture: The passage from First to Second Man is not gradual—it is a major ontological rupture . Three technological revolutions mark temporal races:

• Revolution of writing : transformation of relationship to memory and time
• Industrial revolution : mechanization and acceleration of time
• Digital revolution : total archiving and death of oblivion

The Second Man and his illusions: "The Second Man intends to soothe our pains, purify us from within faced with the loss of meaning of which he is the symptom. He wants to definitively control natural selection and free souls from spiritual selection. He sees in us at best a patient to be cured, at worst rot to be eradicated."

He dreams of being a "flower without roots, an angel freed from mud and graves," but forgets that all transcendence requires humus of immanence.

13 The Great Disconnection

The Great Disconnection designates a major ontological rupture that creates a new temporal race of man . It corresponds to a leap in our relationship to knowledge, time and the sacred, marking a profound discontinuity in the history of conscious Life.

Lagos, a metropolis that became "the nerve center of the world, capital of Second Men and seat of their technological power," represents the culmination of the will to total mastery. Its implosion during the event called the "Great Disconnection" reveals the ultimate paradox: by wanting to preserve everything, we lost everything .

The empty cradle: "No one will ever know what truly came out of this city's womb: a God who abandoned us, a stillborn God, nothing but a sterile explosion...? The cradle is empty."

God as sum of our renunciations: "Lagos taught us that God is not a field of mysteries. He never was. These mysteries are only successive amputations of our humanity: God is the sum of our renunciations. He is everything man has forgotten, sacrificed to become an efficiently hideous being, to become the Second Man."

The resistance of First Men: Faced with the Second Man's failure, General Agmaar Shpirtizi launches an appeal: "The hour of resistance has struck. The First Men who survived the Great Disconnection will take their destiny back into their own hands. The war of temporal races is about to begin and the free army of Africa calls all its own. In memory of the Anthropocene, the Time of Our Own is coming."

Prophecy or warning? The Great Disconnection may not be a certain future event, but a warning: if we continue to sterilize fertile oblivion, to embalm the future in technological formaldehyde, we risk cosmic miscarriage—the failure of God's gestation.