transvaluing:

to re-estimate the value of, especially on a basis differing from accepted standards; reappraise; re-evaluate.

 

Megalpolitans:

Faustians who live in cities during the winter of the Faustian Civilization.

 

Theosophy:

a new religious movement established in the US late 19th century, prime founder being  the Russian immigrant Helena Blavatsky; it’s beliefs are mainly drawn from her writings; considered part of the occultist stream of Western esotericism, it draws on older European philosophies (Neo-Platonism) & Asian religions (Hinduism, Buddhism).

 

Freethinking:

see Chapter VIII page 264, Chapter IX, page 316

 

morphology:

the form and structure of an organism considered as a whole.

 

Nietzsche (“beyond good and evil”):

see above page 342

 

Stirner:

1806-56; German philosopher, forerunner of nihilism, existentialism, psychoanalytic theory, postmodernism & individualist anarchism; his main work The Ego and Its Own (The Individual and his Property) published 1845

 

Ibsen:

see chapter I, pages 20, 24, 45

 

Strindberg:

see chapter I, page 24

 

Shaw:

see chapter I, page 35

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art-genera:

meaning genre of art; the traditional subdivision or categories (genera) of the Arts art Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Literature, Music & Performing.

 

epoch making:

conventionally, a particular period of time marked by distinctive features, events, or the beginning of a distinctive period in history; in Spengler’s lexicon, it is a transition period in the lifecycle of a culture, marking the changeover from one stage to another, such as  the movement from Culture to Civilization; a period necessary & predetermined to happen at a specific point in time.

 

Destiny:

process by which the inner actualizes itself in the World, the predetermined governing of the Culture/Civilization organism; it is impersonal & collective, the individual is but a reflection; all destinies have a definitive start and end