CYCLE TWENTY-ONE

1. That which is negative and primal is also, by definition, malevolent, since it functions in relation to the inorganic on the basis of competition.

2. That which is positive and supreme is also, by definition, benevolent, since it functions in relation to the organic on the basis of co-operation.

3. Competition is both extrinsically (objective) and intrinsically (subjective) malevolent, since it works against the self from the standpoint of the antiself, which is the self that has been eclipsed by inorganic pressures to such an extent that it functions in relation to primacy.

4. Co-operation is both extrinsically (objective) and intrinsically (subjective) benevolent, since it works in harmony with the self (whichever self that may happen to be) from the standpoint of organic supremacy.

5. One can - and, I believe, should - distinguish the malevolence of primal metachemistry from the benevolence of supreme metachemistry, as one would distinguish ugliness and hatred from beauty and love in both primary and secondary contexts.

6. One can - and, I believe, should - distinguish the malevolence of primal chemistry from the benevolence of supreme chemistry, as one would distinguish weakness and humility from strength and pride in both primary and secondary contexts.

7. One can - and, I believe, should - distinguish the malevolence of primal physics from the benevolence of supreme physics, as one would distinguish ignorance and pain from knowledge and pleasure in both primary and secondary contexts.

8. One can - and, I believe, should - distinguish the malevolence of primal metaphysics from the benevolence of supreme metaphysics, as one would distinguish falsity and woe from truth and joy in both primary and secondary contexts.

9. Malevolence and benevolence are equally applicable to both sensuality and sensibility in all the above elemental contexts, since either can be 'once born' and outer or 'reborn' and inner.

10. Primacy is always malignant in its inorganic negativity, whether with regard to metachemical materialism, chemical realism, physical naturalism, or to metaphysical idealism.

11. Supremacy is always benign in its organic positivity, whether with regard to metachemical fundamentalism, chemical nonconformism, physical humanism, or to metaphysical transcendentalism.

12. The organic is benign to itself in relation to the positivity of co-operative supremacy, whereas the inorganic is malignant to the organic in relation to the negativity of its competitive primacy.

13. The inorganic is not malign to itself, for it has no self to be malign towards, but tends, as iron in the soul, to undermine the benignity of the organic.

14. That self which is benign towards itself tends, by extrapolation, to be benevolent towards others, whether directly, through extrinsic supremacy, or indirectly, through intrinsic supremacy.

15. That antiself, on the contrary, which is malign towards the self tends, by extrapolation, to be malevolent towards others, whether directly, through extrinsic primacy, or indirectly, through intrinsic primacy.