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I do not address the future of philosophy. It is dead. And being dead, I can resuscitate it in any form I chose. Philosophy, like humanism, is merely another religion – another story of god, or the rebellion from a god. All forms of atheism and agnosticism are merely additional stories of god, an expression of a dissatisfaction of the story of god in the present age. Atheists are still sensible to charismatic leaders, they still look for their political saviors, and they still follow their cultural heroes. One who is sensible of charismatic personality has merely renamed their idol. Personality is god. Atheists are already on their knees to the latest fashion, the latest force, the most elegant power. The manifestation of personality is the god-making story machine. Every man is a god-maker. Every man is ready to follow personality to the ends of the earth. No human is thus outside of god making.

As I shall show, in many variations, story is what makes men and gods. Only story creates the universe; only story makes life. Nothing, no concept, no man, no god, exists without a cunning story. I discovered this mechanism of the evolving universe in my search for the origins of poetic incantation. My interest is narrowly focused on a voice of authority I discovered in a dagger-like, sharp, bitter, poetry written with a particular focus. Man makes story. Story makes the human. God falls out every time.

Why do I address philosophy, religion, and civilization in my introduction to Chandos Ring? I have a new story to tell about man, so I draw a circle of magic. I make a space of stunned silence to speak. I introduce monsters, which, taken together, represent a breathtaking next step in human personality and consciousness.