CYCLE SEVEN

1. Power, or willpower, does not stand to glory as evil to good but as virtue to good, since goodness is the glorious outcome of a virtuous act, which is to say, the use of some particular form of willpower directed towards a glorious end. Hence power stands to glory as the virtuous precondition of an end whose essence is good. At least this is true of willpower with regard to sensibility, whether in terms of strength, truth, beauty, or knowledge.

2. When we consider willpower with regard to sensuality, however, the relationship between power and glory is reversed, since willpower is then the vicious consequence of a precondition whose essence or, rather, appearance is evil. Thus instead of willpower preceding glory, as in sensibility, it is the negative glory, or evil, of sensuality that precedes a willpower which is, of necessity, vicious, and this whether in terms of weakness, illusion, ugliness, or ignorance. For these vices are respectively consequent upon the prior existence, in centrifugal vacuity, of humiliation, woe, pain, and hatred, whose glory, being negative, can only be evil.

3. Hence evil precedes vice in the sensual contexts of negative glory, and vicious acts are less evil than foolish on account of their association with sensuality. Conversely, virtue precedes goodness in the sensible contexts of positive willpower, and virtuous acts are less good than wise on account of their association with sensibility.

4. The folly of vice contrasts, on any plane, with the wisdom of virtue.

5. Thus we may contrast the folly of the Devil of sensuality, or Anti-Devil, viciously diverging from the evil of the Hell of sensuality, or Anti-Hell, with the wisdom of the Devil of sensibility, or Pro-Devil, virtuously converging upon the good of the Hell of sensibility, or Pro-Hell, as one would contrast the divergence of illusion from woe with the convergence of strength upon pride, or the divergence of light from Space with the convergence of soul upon Time.

6. Thus we may contrast the folly of the God of sensuality, or Anti-God, viciously diverging from the evil of the Heaven of sensuality, or Anti-Heaven, with the wisdom of the God of sensibility, or Pro-God, virtuously converging upon the good of the Heaven of sensibility, or Pro-Heaven, as one would contrast the divergence of weakness from humiliation with the convergence of truth upon joy, or the divergence of sound from Time with the convergence of spirit upon Space.

7. Thus we may contrast the folly of the Woman of sensuality, or Anti-Mother, viciously diverging from the evil of the World of sensuality, or Anti-World, with the wisdom of the Woman of sensibility, or Pro-Mother, virtuously converging upon the good of the World of sensibility, or Pro-World, as one would contrast the divergence of ignorance from hate with the convergence of beauty upon pleasure, or the divergence of taste from Volume with the convergence of the id (maternal instinct) upon Mass.

8. Thus we may contrast the folly of the Man of sensuality, or Anti-Christ, viciously diverging from the evil of the Purgatory of sensuality, or Anti-Purgatory, with the wisdom of the Man of sensibility, or Pro-Christ, virtuously converging upon the good of the Purgatory of sensibility, or Pro-Purgatory, as one would contrast the divergence of ugliness from pain with the convergence of knowledge upon love, or the divergence of lust from Mass with the convergence of mind upon Volume.

9. To diverge from spatial Space but to converge upon spaced Space; to diverge from sequential Time but to converge upon repetitive Time; to diverge from volumetric Volume but to converge upon voluminous Volume; to diverge from massive Mass but to converge upon massed Mass.

10. Diverging viciously, in folly, from the evils of idealism, naturalism, materialism, and realism; converging virtuously, in wisdom, upon the goods of transcendentalism, fundamentalism, nonconformism, and humanism.

11. Damned by and to sensuality, one can only be saved to and by sensibility. Saved from idealism to fundamentalism, diagonally falling from the eyes to the heart; saved from naturalism to transcendentalism, diagonally rising from the ears to the lungs; saved from materialism to humanism, diagonally falling from the tongue to the womb; saved from realism to nonconformism, diagonally rising from the phallus to the brain. Barbarism, culture, civilization, and nature, germane to Hell, Heaven, the World, and Purgatory.