CYCLE THREE

1. The ego exists in all four elemental contexts, where it is commensurate with form and thus knowledge. That ego which is metachemical will have knowledge of the Devil, which is beauty.

2. That ego which is chemical will have knowledge of woman, which is strength.

3. That ego which is physical will have knowledge of man, which is knowledge per se.

4. That ego which is metaphysical will have knowledge of God, which is truth.

5. Contrary to the above, that ego which is negatively metachemical will have ignorance of the Devil, which is ugliness.

6. That ego which is negatively chemical will have ignorance of woman, which is weakness.

7. That ego which is negatively physical will have ignorance of man, which is ignorance per se.

8. That ego which is negatively metaphysical will have ignorance of God, which is falsity (illusion).

9. Alternatively, one could differentiate between the ignorance of the Antidevil, antiwoman, antiman, and the Antigod, and the knowledge of the Devil, woman, man, and God.

10. It is important to understand that God and the Devil (or the Antigod and the Antidevil) are higher types of persons, upper-class persons, and not completely distinct from mankind. For mankind are divisible between the lower-class commonality of men and women, and the upper-class nobility of devils and gods.

11. Just so, the generality of people are divisible between strength and knowledge (and/or weakness and ignorance), while a smaller number of persons, corresponding to an elite, are divisible between beauty and truth (and/or ugliness and falsity).

12. Generally speaking, beauty and strength are female attributes, knowledge and truth male ones, since the female side of life, rooted in a vacuum, is ever objective, whereas its male side, centred in a plenum, is ever subjective, and therefore the division in question is between appearance and quantity on the one hand, and quality and essence on the other hand.

13. The female side of life, being objective, is primary, like fire and water, whereas the male side of it, being subjective, is secondary, like vegetation (earth) and air.

14. That which is objective diverges (in sensuality) and/or converges (in sensibility) on a direct, or straight-line, basis.

15. That which is subjective diverges (in sensuality) and/or converges (in sensibility) on an indirect, or curved-line, basis.

16. The female side of life, being primary, is more aggressive than its male side, just as fire and water are more aggressive than vegetation and air.

17. An aggressive country or people will have a female bias, in which heathenistic criteria, properly appertaining to sensuality, will be paramount.

18. An unaggressive country or people will have a male bias, in which Christian or Christian-type criteria, properly appertaining to sensibility, will be paramount.