CYCLE FIVE

1. To contrast the fire of barbarism, both outer (eyes) and inner (blood) with the air of culture, both outer (ears) and inner (lungs), as one would contrast the Devil with God (in both negative and positive modes respectively).

2. To contrast the water of civilization, both outer (tongue) and inner (womb) with the vegetation of nature, both outer (phallus) and inner (brain), as one would contrast woman with man (in both negative and positive modes respectively).

3. To fall from the barbarism of the eyes to the barbarism of the heart, as from idealism to fundamentalism, but to rise from the culture of the ears to the culture of the lungs, as from naturalism to transcendentalism.

4. To fall from the civilization of the tongue to the civilization of the womb, as from materialism to humanism, but to rise from the nature of the phallus to the nature of the brain, as from realism to nonconformism.

5. To descend, along a space-time continuum, from metachemical objectivity to chemical objectivity, but to ascend, along a time-space continuum, from chemical subjectivity to metachemical subjectivity.

6. To descend, along a volume-mass continuum, from metaphysical objectivity to physical objectivity, but to ascend, along a mass-volume continuum, from physical subjectivity to metaphysical subjectivity.

7. The descent from metachemical objectivity to chemical objectivity, as from the eyes to the heart, sight to blood, has reference to the salvation of the soul (from the antisoul) in barbarous sensibility.

8. The ascent from chemical subjectivity to metachemical subjectivity, as from the ears to the lungs, sound to breath, has reference to the salvation of the spirit (from the antispirit) in cultural sensibility.

9. The descent from metaphysical objectivity to physical objectivity, as from the tongue to the womb, taste to conception, has reference to the salvation of the id (from the anti-id) in civilized sensibility.

10. The ascent from physical subjectivity to metaphysical subjectivity, as from the phallus to the brain, sex to prayer, has reference to the salvation of the mind (from the antimind) in natural sensibility.

11. In all four instances of descent or ascent from sensuality to sensibility, salvation is a matter of willpower directed towards a glorious end, the will of the soul to pride, of the spirit to joy, of the id to pleasure, and of the mind to love.

12. The will of the soul is centred in strength, the will of the spirit is centred in truth, the will of the id is centred in beauty, and the will of the mind is centred in knowledge. Strength is diabolical, but the will of the soul is barbarous; truth is divine, but the will of truth is cultural; beauty is mundane, but the will of beauty is civilized; knowledge is purgatorial, but the will of knowledge is natural. Barbarism leads to Hell, culture leads to Heaven, civilization leads to the World, and nature leads to Purgatory. The pride of the Father, the joy of the Holy Spirit, the pleasure of the Mother, and the love of the Son.