It is my belief that it is required of all men and women to aspire to a goal beyond themselves. Each member of the human race should, because it is their duty, become greater than what they are. Transend yourself and evolve into a higher being. To me the ultimate goal is to be semifer/semideus. That is, half savage/half divine. Man is mortal and bound to this earth yet, he is also above it as his sould lives forever.

In many creation stories it the combination of what is feral with what is supreme that makes us human. In the ancient epic poem of the Enuma Elish the sun god, Marduk, killed Kingu and mixed his divine blood with the dust of the earth to create humanity. Romulus and Remus where born of the god Mars yet raised by a she wolf. And in the Bible man was made from the dust of the earth but in the likeness of God and by the breath of the holy spirit.

The duality of man is the conflict of what is deeply instinctive and what is morally superior. Ying and Yang, Anima and Animus, Light and Dark, Good and Evil, Order and Chaos. The stuggle to balance these poles is the root of misery and destruction. But if one were to embrace both sides and achieve a balance then there is no limit to the amount of tranquility and harmony one would possess.

Plato wrote of the allegory of the cave and Nietzsche gave us the superman. Philosophically it should be our goal to obtain a level of perfection, one where we are united with the universe and yet transcending it. The only way to obtain this level is to become a paradox; Hard yet soft, primal yet divine.