HOUSE OF LEGOMINISM

"Then I distinguished various modes of prophecy, and was the first to tell from dreams what fate ordained should come about; interpreted the hidden sense of voices, sounds, sights met by chance upon the road." -Prometheus Bound Aug 25, Year 1, Era Legere

The House of Legominism is an institution dedicated to creating the future through deliberate, conscious application of antinomian/ LHP initiatory aesthetics. The House is a modern resurrection of the Cult of the Law of Wyrd, which the Russian philosopher Gurdjieff mentioned in his fictional work - calling it the Society for the Adherents of Legominism. In practice, we are hunters and gatherers of omens. Our methodology and delivery is summarized via the application of the formula of "deliberate inexactitudes". A formula such as this is the vital element that animates all true manifestations of the Avant-Garde. This methodology essentially enables others to enact and fulfil their own Quests, via the introduction of discord and malcontent into the minds of men. As such, the House pays homage to the First to partake of Darkness: He who Hides and Agitates. The House is a sacred enclosure for soothsayers and prophets who predict the future not via crystal balls and other such children's toys, but through the temporal application of force which upsets the static balance of the Universe! We do not succumb to the notion of Fate as a preordained and inevitable future save for those fragile human beasts who dutifully fulfil our psycohistoric predictions. Those who possess Will and self-awareness create their own individual destinies through the use of ripples and repercussions in the force of Wyrd.

The House is represented by the official seal of the Pentcycligon. This seal represents the concept of cyclogenesis; the coming into being of the trajectory created by the dynamic psyche as it partakes of cyclic time on a linear static field. This Trajectory becomes the force of Wyrd.  The House will serve as a broadcasting cooperation for performance, video, books, and music with future shaping potentiality. The House will additionally serve as an institution for the study of Terrorforming, Libertinage, Cyclogenesis, Etymancy, Legominism, Psychohistory and radical Futurism through its various chapters:

The Lyceum Etymantia The School of Libertinage The Ultima Futura Foundation A.T.T.A.C. (Aesthetic Terrorists Tactical Antics Corps)

These subjects and their respective chapters serving as exploratory devices will be treated in greater detail in the House's newsletter, "Era Legere".

Legominism

Legominism is a word coined by Gurdjieff to identify what James Webb, in his book "The Harmonious Circle", describes as "a true or valid piece of Traditional wisdom." Research conducted by the Lyceum Etymantia has uncovered the following concerning the origins of the word "legominism":

"Legominism appears to be a product of neoverbalism; a composite using 'leg' - an abbreviation for the Latin word 'legal' - meaning 'law', and the Latin spelling of 'omen', which is 'omin' - meaning the portent of a future event. The 'ism' suffix denotes adherence to a set of principles, which in the case of legominism is delineated by the 'law of portent'. It is more likely however, that the 'leg' prefix is an abbreviation of the Latin verb 'legere' which means 'to gather'. In this circumstance, legominism comes to mean 'cult of omen collectors'."

The House of Legominism employs both the 'cult of the law of portent' and 'cult of omen collectors' definitions. The latter definition appears to be what Gurdjieff had in mind when coining the word legominism. Further, from James Webb's "The Harmonious Circle":

"His reading made him familiar with the occultists' most cherished idea; that there had existed from time immemorial an esoteric Tradition of secret knowledge, transmitted from initiate to initiate down through the centuries."

The pursuit of this "secret knowledge" appears to be the impetus behind Gurdjieffs' voyages to foreign lands with a nucleus of acquaintances he called the "Seekers of the Truth". From "The Gurdjieff Work", Kathleen Riordan Speeth says that Gurdjieff was:

"Convinced that there had been at some time, somewhere, schools or communities with real knowledge and that if so, this inner circle of humanity might still exist."

The House of Legominism feels that this "real knowledge" need not be sought with one's nose buried in books, nor with one's feet traversing the soil of exotic foreign lands. The House feels that this knowledge is accessible via Initiation, and that the omens one gathers are of the variety that are significant to the individual and the fabric of history which he touches with his personal genius. The House further realizes that knowledge is not to be found, but is a quality cultivated through the individuals interaction with experiential phenomena. As such, books and foreign lands are supportive and provide the raw material for knowledge to occur, but as things-in-themselves do not foster instant knowledge. Nor is knowledge a particularly useful quality if it is not actively manifested. Only through the fulfilment of such omens will the Legominist achieve wisdom.

Deliberate Inexactitudes

The Legominists presentation of his knowledge is delivered through the medium of deliberate inexactitudes. He does this not to flee from accuracy of thought and its subsequent translation into information, but to allow others to seek after the mystery of his knowledge and make it their own. In such a way, deliberate inexactitudes resemble the anti-mimetic process found in manifestations of the avant-garde. From Peter Wilson's "A Preface to Ezra Pound":

"Anti-mimetic: loss of interest in providing a textually complete and accountable version of some external reality. This does not automatically imply inconsistency of detail or 'factual' inaccuracy, but rather that any presentation will be more or less dependant on perspectives and possible distortions integral to the text."

What the House calls "deliberate inexactitudes", Gurdjieff called "Intentional Inexactitudes". James Webb illustrates that "the members of his society of the Adherents of Legominism had introduced into their works of art deliberate variations from the proportions which would have given perfect harmony."