CYCLE SEVENTEEN: CONTRASTING PRIMACY WITH SUPREMACY

1. There is no one psychology and psyche but a number of psychologies and psyches corresponding to the self and the unself in both objective and subjective guises, on both noumenal and phenomenal planes.

2. Thus not only is psychology divided, on a gender basis, between id and ego, the former irrational or, more to the point, instinctual and the latter rational and, therefore, intellectual, but it is also divisible between the noumenal and phenomenal manifestations of each.

3. Not only is the psyche divided, on a gender basis, between soul and mind, the former emotional and the latter spiritual, but it is also divisible between the noumenal and phenomenal manifestations of each.

4. Furthermore, one should allow, in addition to the aforementioned positive manifestations of self and unself, for their negative counterparts, so that we are obliged to think less in terms of self and unself than of antiself and anti-unself.

5. For just as there are positive manifestations of the id and the ego in relation to the not-self and to selfless universality and/or personality (depending on the plane), so there are negative manifestations of the id and the ego in relation to negative modes of barbarity and civility in the one case, and to nature and culture in the other.

6. Briefly, one should distinguish the negative noumenal self and unself from its positive counterpart in both objective and subjective guises on the basis of cosmic (un-universal) primacy, since where the positive manifestations of metachemistry and metaphysics will be universal and supreme, their negative counterparts are cosmic and primal.

7. Likewise, we should distinguish the negative phenomenal self and unself from its positive counterpart in both objective and subjective guises on the basis of geologic (impersonal) primacy, since where the positive manifestations of chemistry and physics will be personal and supreme, their negative counterparts are geologic and primal.

8. Whereas beauty and love are the psychological and psychical manifestations of positive metachemistry, whether in relation to the eyes (outer) or to the heart (inner), ugliness and hatred are their negative counterparts, whether in relation to the stellar cosmos (outer) or to the planet Venus (inner), as we descend the axis of space-time materialism on both sensual (spatial) and sensible (repetitive) terms.

9. Whereas strength and pride are the psychological and psychical manifestations of positive chemistry, whether in relation to the tongue (outer) or to the womb (inner), weakness and humility are their negative counterparts, whether in relation to the moon (outer) or to the oceanic aspect of the earth (inner), as we descend the axis of volume-mass realism on both sensual (volumetric) and sensible (massed) terms.

10. Whereas knowledge and pleasure are the psychological and psychical manifestations of positive physics, whether in relation to the phallus (outer) or to the brain (inner), ignorance and pain are their negative counterparts, whether in relation to the terrestrial aspect (outer) of the earth or to Mars (inner), as we ascend the axis of mass-volume naturalism on both sensual (massive) and sensible (voluminous) terms.

11. Whereas truth and joy are the psychological and psychical manifestations of positive metaphysics, whether in relation to the ears (outer) or to the lungs (inner), falsity and woe are their negative counterparts, whether in relation to the sun (outer) or to Saturn (inner), as we ascend the axis of time-space idealism on both sensual (sequential) and sensible (spaced) terms.

12. Just as there is more positivity than negativity in that which is universal and/or personal, so there is more negativity than positivity in whatever is cosmic and/or geologic.

13. The cosmic and/or geologic, being primal, is everywhere the negative precondition of the universal and/or personal which, in its organic supremacy, derives from it on a more positive basis.

14. Yet this does not make the cosmic and/or geologic 'evil' and the universal and/or personal 'good'. On the contrary, evil can be negative or positive, goodness likewise, since the one has associations with metachemistry and the other with chemistry, and we also have to allow, on the subjective side of life, for positive and negative manifestations of folly and wisdom, the male counterparts to evil and goodness which have associations, by contrast, with physics and metaphysics.

15. Where evil and goodness are concerned, however, the id is evil in its instinctuality, while the soul is good in its emotionality - the former barbarous and the latter civilized.

16. Likewise, where folly and wisdom are concerned, the ego is foolish in its intellectuality, while the mind is wise in its spirituality - the former natural and the latter cultural.

17. This applies as much to the negative as to the positive manifestations of the aforementioned attributes, as well as to their phenomenal and noumenal manifestations in both outer and inner contexts.