CYCLE TWELVE

1. As we have shown, one sensibility tends to prevail at the expense of another, whether with regard to the phenomenal/metaphenomenal (physical/metaphysical) planes or to the noumenal/metanoumenal (chemical/metachemical) ones.

2. Thus the World only prevails at the expense of Purgatory, the Mother/womb at the expense of the Son/brain on the one hand, and likewise Hell ... at the expense of Heaven, the Devil/heart at the expense of God/the lungs on the other hand. And so much is this the case that one may confidently maintain that the achievement, to any significant extent, of Purgatory or Heaven, knowledge or truth, is really the exception to the rule, a rule in which, due to their objective essences, both beauty and strength have the moral or, rather, amoral and immoral advantage respectively. For whereas beauty is objectively amoral and strength objectively immoral, knowledge is subjectively amoral and truth subjectively moral, and neither form of subjectivity can expect to make much headway in a society and/or world which is more partial to objectivity on account of its cosmic sanction.

3. In fact, so much is objectivity characteristic of the stellar roots of the Cosmos ... it is inconceivable that the subjective virtues could ever hope to prevail universally over the objective ones without some drastic technological action of the sort outlined by me in previous texts, which would in some degree shield the Earth from cosmic rays, while simultaneously encouraging a transmutation of mankind towards some post-human goal set in Space Centres. For the way things stand, purgatorial nonconformism and heavenly transcendentalism can only remain in the shadow of worldly humanism and hellish fundamentalism respectively, even given the prospect of certain short-term changes.

4. In the meantime, most men will continue to compromise, now as before, with the World and Hell, neither of which have a masculine essence and no real sympathy, in consequence, for subjective modes of salvation. They may well achieve, despite this compromise, a degree of nonconformist or transcendentalist salvation, but not to the extent that they would be able and willing to sacrifice the World or Hell for it. And, in that, they would be demonstrating that, for all their good intentions, they were still fundamentally creatures of either the Antipurgatory or the Antiheaven, for whom the pressures of the World and Hell were simply too much to ignore!