CYCLE FIVE

1. All the elements kill when they go on the rampage. Fire kills in the form not least of all of volcanic eruptions, spewing out molten lava from the turbulent bowels of the earth. Water kills not least of all in the form of floods, overflowing banks and carrying away whatever stands in its path. Earth (vegetation) kills not least of all in the form of earthquakes, bringing civilization to its knees as it shatters the foundations of buildings and rips infrastructures apart. Air kills not least of all in the form of tornadoes or hurricanes, leaving a trail of havoc in the wake of its devastating advance.

2. Nature kills indiscriminately when the world is rocked by volcanic eruptions, floods, earthquakes, and tornadoes. The violence of nature knows no bounds and no-one is ever entirely safe from the threat or actuality of natural violence. We live, believe it or not, on a very dangerous planet, a planet which turns, from time to time, upon both mankind and the animal kind with the full ferocity of its pent-up forces.

3. Yet still there are idiots and fools whose basic concept of God is one derived from the Old Testament or equivalent sources in which God is conceived, in typically primitive vein, as 'Creator', and not just as Creator of this planet and all life on it but, more preposterously, as Creator of the Universe, meaning the Cosmos in general! How much longer will we have to endure the primitivity of these simple folk or, more insidiously, of the priests who rule over them!

4. All that is cosmic, and therefore basic, is grossly inferior to even the least of human beings. That which is organic has grown out of the inorganic, whether on a devolved basis due to objectivity or, alternatively, on an evolved basis due to subjectivity. Whereas the cosmic/geologic foundation is primal in its negativity, the personal/universal offshoot is supreme in its positivity. Hence the impossibility of attributing supremacy to the Cosmos.

5. One can certainly attribute primal being to that aspect of the Cosmos corresponding to a subjective orientation, like the Sun and the planet Saturn, but anything corresponding, by contrast, to an objective orientation would, in its female bias, equate with primal doing, whether in terms of stellar sensuality or Venusian sensibility.

6. And it is the objective-oriented cosmic noumena which precede the subjective-oriented noumena, primal doing preceding primal being, not vice versa, so that, strictly speaking, it is a sort of primitive, or negative, devil preceding an equally primitive god, the female mode of cosmic noumena preceding its male mode.

7. In neither context would there be anything supreme, and therefore all references to a so-called 'Supreme Being' behind cosmic Creation are delusory and deserve to be both exposed and, more importantly, rejected as unworthy of enlightened minds. Such references are in fact the fruit of ignorance.

8. Even Voltaire, that in many ways truly insightful philosopher, was a simple Creator-slavering deist or, more correctly, theist whose woefully primitivistic and hyped notion of God as Creator and Supreme Being could hardly ingratiate him to those of us who identify with a post-Christian rather than a pre-Christian interpretation of deity. In that respect, he was little different from Hitler!

9. Sartre would not have been impressed with Voltaire's deity, and although he didn't go particularly far in developing a higher and truer concept of deity, he paved the way for those, such as I, who were able to view his humanistic atheism as a springboard to better things.

10. Out of existentialist humanism I have developed Social Transcendentalism, which takes man to God or, rather, brings the concept of God to the level of the higher man, the man capable of meditating and so of identifying his ego with metaphysics, becoming, in the process, 'the Son', the primary deity whose redemption lies in the primary heaven of the Holy Soul. I call this man a subman, for he is beyond man in the mass and/or volume of vegetative physics.