Notes and Letters on The Autobiography of God Almighty by Jim Overbeck VLJÎH X<0<2DfBF,< Ç<" ºµ,4H 2,@B@40 2äµ,< God Almighty became man in order that we may become gods St. Athanasius Incarn 54.2 [458] II Cor 6: 8 BLITZGEIST PUBLICATIONS email: [email protected] © Jim Overbeck 2003 First published 2003 All rights reserved. No part of the publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission of Blitzgeist Publications. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulate without the publisher’s prior consent in any formm of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Overbeck, Jim The Autobiography of God Almighty ISBN0-9543850-0-4 Icon on back cover by Peter Murphy TABLE OF CONTENTS. The Cretin City Notes & Letters. Introduction page 1 Note to R/phy 3 Note to R/phy 5 Note to R/phy 7 Note to R/phy 11 Note to R/phy 15 Note to R/phy 17 Note to a female meat-eater 19 Note to miss meat-eater 21 Note to Dark Angel 23 Note to Suze 25 Note to R/phy 27 Note to R/phy 29 Note to Suze 32 Note to Anne 90 Letter to Anne 91 Letter to Mark A. 94 Letter to the Darling Girl 96 Letter to Anne 99 Letter to the Darling Boy 107 Note to Mark A. 108 Note to Almighty God 110 Letter to Suze 111 Letter to Mark A. 113 Letter to R/phy 131 Letter to God 139 Letter to Mai 149 Letter to G. P. 161 Notes to G. P. 181 Letters to Miss D. 194 Notes and Letters from Ravenswood. Letter to God 207 ‘Sidebar’ to Letter to God Almighty 226 ‘Sidebar’ on Kant 227 ‘Sidebar’ on gods and goddesses 231 ‘Note to M.’ 240 ‘Sidebar’ on Kant 243 ‘Sidebar’ on Kant’s Infinity 246 Letter to Prof Y ... ‘Herpes Trismegistus’ 250 ‘Sidebar’ towards Hegel via Kant 258 ‘Sidebar’ on Hegel 262 Notes on ‘Humanity’ 280 Communication to Dr M. E. 310 To R. K. 356 God to God 387 Darling Louise 400 Appendices A & B 410 Index 435 fotos and pictures preceding page 1 . Jim Overbeck, mid-30s facing page 106 . Suze Overbeck, 30-ish facing page 140 . Overbeck again, 30-ish after page 207 . Ralph Kessler, aged 17 after page 247 . demon attack drawing after page 311 . gnostic lightshow drawing after page 405 . Calvin lobotomized drawing Introduction What ostensibly started off as the seduction of a seventeen year old boy by a thirty six year old man was not all it seemed. Ralph K. was considered ‘too pretty’ by his contemporaries, and this carried all kinds of implications. The first letters, or parts thereof, are meant to find common ground and grope in that direction. They are stylishly inept in reaching for ‘accommodation, sexual and otherwise, with a teenager of high intelligence’. Overbeck’s designs began to emerge rapidly, especially after the initial liaison, and these make up some of the serious parts of the notes and letters which follow. Overbeck was essentially an intellectual adventurer; hence he needed an adventurous boy (or two) to add to his wife and mistresses. By then the latter amounted to many hundreds. What the attraction was, Overbeck commented, was hardly physical - it was more something to do with kindness. However, boredom was virtually never at issue: things happened, things of an extra- ordinary kind, as those who read the following manuscript closely will surmise. The work as such is largely fragmented; at first the reader will not know what is going on at all; but Overbeck’s strange universe becomes apparent to those who persist. Much of what he wrote is destroyed: 99% of his mathematical studies were burned (literally hundreds of pages), 100% of his early writings on the Greeks, especially analyses of the origins of religion, and so forth. No matter, enough survives to put together the slant of his thought. And who is Overbeck that we should glance into his soul? This is no biography but life does occur. Jim Overbeck claimed God as such paid him several visits. This quiet claim led him into much trouble; but some who went in to ‘gun-sling’ him, to take him out, stayed to listen. This collection comprises some of the talk on which their attention fastened. It is in no particular order, at least in details, because of the diversity of its sources: notebooks, notes, letters (most certainly not intended for publication and, therefore, poor in style, very colloquial, and so on. Much is repetitive, or so it seems, but its content is, in the last analysis, its delivery). Some of the thought expressed in this work is quite shattering. If the reader has the courage to go on, he or she might fall prey to some of the horror discussed in its pages. There are some extremely frightening things contained herein, so some resolve is required. And it is also possible that some of this book will twist your life around. In the text we have left in numerous irritants: copious uses of i.e.’s, e.g.’s, &c.’s, perambulating sentences, in fact, a critic’s field-day; but the urgency of the message, if that, indeed, is what it is, does not suffer by the occasional roughness used in the text. The foulness of the language we have sometimes ‘gentled down’, although enough remains to give some hint of the original. The examination of blasphemy is precisely that, no more or less. But we do feel, most strongly, that the world must benefit from Overbeck ‘ghost writing’ - partly at 1 least, sometimes at a distance - the autobiography of God Almighty. No book in human history has ever attempted this profoundly difficult feat. How well it succeeds is another matter: but, finally, and for the first time, someone at least has tried. We now seriously warn you of an approaching waking nightmare. Whether this is a masterwork of the 20th or 21st century, we leave the reader to decide.One thing is, however, certain: here the rising star of genius shines in the face of humanity - if, that is, that is what it is. We bid you enter a great adventure, which, though disturbing, should put to right many profound difficulties in all our lives. Take it as it ‘effects’ you. Ignore it at your peril. ‘Roller-coast’ through hell; and go to Heaven. 2 Note to R/phy from Cretin City # 1.2/79. I'm not familiar with writing to a 17 yr old boy who is as virulently pretty as a ripe young girl: it appears I must watch what I say, particularly so as not to be thought of as condescending: perhaps I am a condescending son-of-a-bitch period ... I wrote to you a very long letter (of sound advice & weird tales), but dished it with an irritated sigh, thinking shit! how do I reach this beautiful kid!?, because reach you I shall if it is at all possible.... I am aware of the great difficulties in bridging the gap of age & experience: I'm 36 and feel like a galactic version of a cigar-chewing infantry sergeant - too long in the trenches - confronted by Sweetpea (ref the early Popeye scripts), with a speech-bubble coming from his head, saying gug, except you appear to say I am neurotic. This is not true, son - or should that be miss? - although, even if it is, some neurosis comes from being born with nerve. You I like inordinately, so allow me the veteran-to-greenhorn stance: give a little by recognizing that the barrier is not impenetrable, but that we have inner characteristics with highly marked differences, the most singular of which is a vision of things generally, meaning, for example, a more jaded inner network & processes shaped by events in a very unusual life, such as playing psychic roulette too many times against psychotropic mutants with multiple eyes & luminous bodies: hence, when I refer somewhat enigmatically to the Christ event, recognize it means something outside your immediate knowledge. I should say it's what I am all about, as my inner frameworks are saturated with formulae & concepts derived from contacts with the aforementioned entities (viz) divine beings. Your tentative inquiries interested me, particularly as I'm prone to minds high above the norm. I appreciate minds which can cut into reality presented as an on-going mystery. True minds do not form inflexible opinions: rather they hone themselves like razors, because criticality is that sharp. I would like you to check out some events incisively .. spontaneously .. thus experientially. Mind to me means heart with no critical dissociation. The ability of thought to feel & feelings to think is integral ... Integral, cohesive, expansive, flexible, critical. Such a mind must run into difficulties .. A mind worthy to be tested and to test. So it requires courage in the face of adversity, humour - however grim - in the face of despair: hence, learning is a necessity which requires a literally open mind & although much conceit lays claim to this, it is extremely rare .... I like the point you made about clear conscience linked to not hurting anyone. Very sound, though you will find there is something far superior to conscience in guiding one's intellect (viz) metamorphic light; but more of this 3 later when we get to know each other.