Esoteric Nihilism - by Zero PhilosophyNick Land / text
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Esoteric Nihilism
Ways to The Nothing
Zero Philosophy
Oct 31, 2020
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Abrahamic tradition under nihilistic direction might not be what anyone wants, but it’s what we
have. Accelerating iconoclasm turns the world onto The Nothing. Nietzsche was right to
interpret the only global history as this. There is no way out of it because it is itself the ultimate
outside.
The Nothing repels belief, not only psychologically, but more fundamentally. Even those who
would make it their cause cannot do so. Thus it mocks us, without malice. Nothing (alone) is
sacred. We can only wreathe it – always inappropriately – in mad hubbub. In this way it is
apparently entertained.
Zero Philosophy inclines to an exploratory promotion of nihilism along the intertwining paths of
critique, qabbalism, and horror fiction. Some of each will be posted here soon, and then in a
gathering torrent, as a stream of shattered debris from the end of the world.
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(((:):))(:):::: Oct 31, 2020
Glad to see you writing again. "Even those who would make it their cause cannot do so" is a hell of a
commentary on accelerationism... Perhaps, as good Herakleitans, we should say: "Nothing flows"...
A preliminary quote/gematria blizzard (introduction to the unspeakable heresies of Quasiphonic
Qabbala forthcoming), in the interests of only incomplete confoundment:
"Let us think this thought in its most terrible form: existence as it is, without meaning or aim, yet
recurring inevitably without any finale of nothingness: "the eternal recurrence." This is the most
extreme form of nihilism: the nothing (the "meaningless"), eternally!" (Will to Power)
"... the will to destruction as the will of a still deeper instinct, the instinct of self-destruction, the will for
nothingness..." (Will to Power)
"It is neither an annihilation of beings nor does it spring from a negation. Nihilation will not submit to
calculation in terms of annihilation and negation. The nothing itself nihilates." (What is Metaphysics)