Brief Introduction, a analysis from a Schopenhaurian to Lovecraft.
A materialist, and idealist. Atheist who thinked be religions “baloney”and a writer who did a very religious mythology about the universal personalities from the Will of the World who to he is called as Azatoth. A fantastic work with creativite stories but tainted by a non sense “cosmic horror” Who is he? H.P Lovecraft, a hatred and loved author of the Cthulhu Mythos.
The mistakes and successes of Lovecraft
H.P Lovecraft, as a abbreviation of his complete name Howard Phillips Lovecraft (Providence, 20 de agosto de 1890 – Providence, 15 de março de 1937), was a north american author who did the famous Cthulhu Mythos in his books. The source of Lovecraft writings, is of course like all artists, the inspiration from the creativity of the Will of the World being he his channel, and the personal experiences of the author like his personality, beliefes of pessimistic materialist atheism and the others writers who he head, like Lord Dunsany's and also Arthur Schopenhauer. You can see that Azatoth from his books its the blind and chaothic Will from Arthur Schopenhauer philosophy with another name. It did a paradoxal feature of Lovecraft, in one hand, a excellent creative author based at a schopenhaurian universe with Azatoth and we as avatars from the nightmare from his universal abominable aspects, who trought his work teath about the Will of the World and his universal personalities like Nyarlathotep, however in another hand he is meraly a materialist atheist who understood all of this as “nothing mystical” but baloney from his brain, like a human lost in a unknown materialist universe that not care with us as humanity, the called “cosmic horror”. This is a reason to Lovecraft be good as a creative author and bad as a materialistic atheist who say everything of his work be “metaphors to the cosmicism atheist”.
The schopenhaurian base of the lovecraftian horror
Arthur Schopenhayer (Danzig, 22 de fevereiro de 1788 – Frankfurt, 21 de setembro de 1860) was a german philosopher who believed that the thing in iself of the World its the Will that represent a itself as physicality. To Schop our humans minds not experience the World as it is in itself, but trought a representation or simulation of it, being he say the inner essence of the world the will and his exterior appearence as physicallity. The Will is a flow of feelings, emotions and thoughts from a universal subject like his fear, love and joy, who is blind and chaotic at his desires, being we the avatars from his nightmare that is about he devour a itself and feel pleasure to it in this cycle being he based, and the representation its the way that the will shows a itself to the observation, like a done by our humans as the avatars from his dream, in this mode his feelings, emotions and thoughts experiencied by he, being represented or simulated to our humans minds in the form of perception or physicallity as galaxies, forests and cities. The true inner essence of the world it is the subterranean non perceptive will behind his exterior appearence of physicallity, because behind the screen of perception from the human mind where is experienced the physicall “reality” of galaxies, forests and cities that are see, hearded, smelled and touched, what exist in itself is the interior essence of his feelings, emotions and thoughts experienced by the Subject. The representation is meraly a way that the will shows a itself to observation, being the world a universal will in reality.
A which way H.P Lovecraft is inspired by Schopenhauer? To he with his Cthulhu Mythos, similar to a actor liked by him who are Lord Dunsany, the reality its a dream from Azatoth, and whan he be awaked all reality will be exterminated to a new dream be created. What lovecraft is different from the normal god of Dunsany based at traditional religious deities, its that to he instead god has a crazy mind, blind and instinctive, the idiot chaos who dreaming the universe. This seem a concept like the Will of the World of Schopenhauer, who as also a instinctive universal will, blind and impulsive like who imaginate or dreaming about the reality inside it, being us the avatars from his nightmare.
The problem of the cosmic horror
Lovecraft was a materialistic atheist despite his idealist mythology similar to Arthur Schopenhauer, understanding his work based in this beliefe, like demonstrated at his philosophical ensay “Idealism and Materialism—A Reflection.” To Lovecraft, what exist in itself its a non mental died cosmos - as i explained in my article “the non mental ontology as a ironic emanation from the mental” its absurd. Where humanity has no value to the blind and mechanic Azatoth, instead from Schopenhauer who say be a metapyhsical essence of the reality, Lovecraft say it to be meraly a metaphor to his wrong belief of an materialistic universe where our brains are born and when them died, our uselles existence also will cease to exist.
What not be sense its that, beyond the obvious problem of the erroneous materialism already refuted in this blog at various ways, based from Arthur Schopenhauer to Giovanni Gentile, its the boring theme about “we be in a unknowable cosmos always beyond of our human understanding. Because all be the same Absolute God who is experiencing a itself trought we humans as his avatars emanated by he inside him, everything also can be understand as refractions from the Logos or Intellect of God, and if the macro cosmos can know a itself that is God, the micro cosmos like we humans as his avatars also can. The archetypal inner essences of the existence as the immutable and eternal ways of be the Universal Conscience (called by Plato as the world of ideas), its refracted in all things because it be universal like the universal conscience, all things at his essence can be understand as the integration of the human logos with the macro logos as the correct thought of the micro truth from the human mind to the macro truth of the universal idea from the Logos of the Universal Conscience. Therefore, the cosmic horror with his relativismis baloney, with the Absolute Truth can be known by us humans. Its not relevant exist “weird beings very beyond the human essence” like the Eldritch deities from Lovecraft, but everyting as refraction from the macro cosmos Logos of God, can be understand a it to all his emanations that has a micro cosmos logo like our humans or these weird deities.
The lovecraftian paradox and its solution
At which way, you reader can solve this lovecraftian paradox of a Lovecraft who is a materialist atheist tedious in his diary life, and a creative man in his mythology, teaching about the Will of the World and his universal personalities? Despite be a confuse but interesting question, the solution its clear, “what lovecraft say in his diary materialist life its what his cognitive mind say with his atheist illusions, when in his creative works when it is being left off to his psyche be connected with the Creativity of God its communicated to he the truth about the idealist essence of the existence, what he did trought his mythology about Azatoth and his aspects of the Great Ones, but tainted a it with his erroneous materialistic beliefs.
Weird Horror as beyond lovecraft
Its Misunderstood that weird abominations its “lovecraftian or from cosmic horror”. But weird monster, like the snallygaster from the germanic american folklore, always existed at the human religious mythologies, what do a them being not “lovecraftian cosmic horror” but simply “weird horror”.
Conclusion
H.P Lovecraft had a nouble role as a channel who he was to communicate about the Will of the World and his universal personalities trought the Cthulhu Mythos did by he. However, his materialism its problematic, what need to experiencied H.P Lovecraft works a deep understanding of Idealism in itself to his idealist mythology inspired by Arthur Schopenhauer, unfortunately interpreted at a materialist way by lovecraft from his life when he is not writing about Azatoth. Lovecraftian mythos need be used as a way to understand better the Will of the World to new creative works from the weird horror beyond lovecraft, at a direct idealist correct metaphysics.