CYCLE EIGHT

1. Strictly speaking, barbarism is that which has to do with the space-time continuum ... of falling fire, whereas culture is that which has to do with the time-space continuum ... of rising air.

2. Likewise, civilization is that which has to do with the volume-mass continuum ... of falling water, whereas nature is that which has to do with the mass-volume continuum ... of rising vegetation.

3. Alternatively, one could speak of the space-time continuum as the idealism-fundamentalism continuum, while reserving for Time-Space the description of the naturalism-transcendentalism continuum.

4. Similarly, one could speak of the volume-mass continuum as the materialism-humanism continuum, while reserving for Mass-Volume the description of the realism-nonconformism continuum.

5. Space-Time is concretely intelligible in terms of an eyes-heart continuum, while Time-Space could more concretely be defined in terms of an ears-lungs continuum.

6. Volume-Mass is concretely intelligible in terms of a tongue-womb continuum, while Mass-Volume could more concretely be defined in terms of a phallus-brain continuum.

7. Whatever the parallel (and other instances could be cited) the space-time continuum is synonymous with the barbarism (falling fire) of hellish doing, and contrasts, absolutely, with the culture (rising air) of heavenly being in the time-space continuum.

8. Likewise, the volume-mass continuum is synonymous with the civilization (falling water) of worldly giving, and contrasts, relatively, with the nature (rising vegetation) of purgatorial taking in the mass-volume continuum.

9. The absolute contrast between barbarism and culture has reference to the metachemical and chemical planes upon which Space and Time have their existence, whereas the relative contrast between civilization and nature has reference to the metaphysical and physical planes upon which Volume and Mass have their existence.

10. Hence the space-time fall from metachemical to chemical barbarism contrasts absolutely with the time-space rise from chemical to metachemical culture, while the volume-mass fall from metaphysical to physical civilization contrasts relatively with the mass-volume rise from physical to metaphysical nature.

11. To fall, in barbarous salvation, from the metachemical objectivity of idealism to the chemical objectivity of fundamentalism, as from outer philosophy to inner philosophy.

12. To rise, in cultural salvation, from the chemical subjectivity of naturalism to the metachemical subjectivity of transcendentalism, as from outer theosophy to inner theosophy.

13. To fall, in civilized salvation, from the metaphysical objectivity of materialism to the physical objectivity of humanism, as from outer philology to inner philology (language of the genes).

14. To rise, in natural salvation, from the physical subjectivity of realism to the metaphysical subjectivity of nonconformism, as from outer theology (pantheism) to inner theology.