CYCLE FOUR

1. Because strength is rooted in the blood, it could be said that Allah corresponds to the Western or, at any rate, Christian concept of the vampire, since, unlike the Father, Allah is a hard-line fundamentalist deity whose image of strength has its fountainhead in the soul.

2. Thus whereas the fundamentalism of the Father is tempered by His relationship to both the Son and the Holy Spirit, the fundamentalism of Allah is absolutist in its correlation with the blood.

3. The Father might be accused of 'hogging Heaven' to Himself by sucking air out of (presumably) the Mother's lungs in due process of loving her, but He could not be accused of sucking blood from her veins in the manner of one who has no relationship, not even tangentially, with the Holy Ghost.

4. Count Dracula may well be, in his peer-like fundamentalism, the Christian concept of Allah, for whom the pursuit of strength through blood is a matter of (diabolical) life and death which amounts to nothing short of a 'Holy War'.

5. Were Jehovah, Allah, the Father, etc., simply different terms for the same God ... there would be no friction, neither now nor historically, between the different so-called world religions. It is, however, precisely because such names relate to different concepts of God ... that frictions arise.

6. Thus although all traditional religions relate, through various names, to the concept of God, they vary in their interpretation of that concept.

7. The reasons for this are many and complex, but climatic and environmental factors are inevitably responsible for such a variety of interpretations to the notion of God.

8. Unless we can establish a 'level playing field' of climatic and environmental conditions for the whole world, it is difficult to foresee a situation arising whereby universal unanimity as to what constitutes God could be anticipated.

9. Such a 'level playing field' ... of an equal and morally-advantageous climate ... may well, besides the more obvious factor of standardized indoor conditions, require the siting of large 'blocking' or 'filtering' devices in space to reduce the sun's influence, especially in relation to overly hot climates or countries.

10. Viewed from the standpoint of the sort of grey, temperate climate which is conducive to the development, up to a point, of genuine spirituality, it becomes sadly apparent that most of the world (in the global sense) is at a distinct spiritual disadvantage to countries like Ireland with regard to climate, since a majority of countries tend to have hot dry weather which has the effect of impeding true spirituality.

11. In fact the hotter the country the harder it will be to go against the sun's pagan influence and adopt anything like a transcendental attitude to life.

12. Even Britain is at a spiritual disadvantage to Ireland with regard to the greater amount, comparatively speaking, of sunshine it experiences vis-à-vis its island neighbour - a factor which is doubtless at the roots of the age-old friction and distrust between the two islands.

13. Irish immigrants to Britain differ from most of their coloured counterparts by coming from a climate which, in its preponderating greyness and dampness, was largely responsible for creating that transvaluated culture which reflects a Christian 'rebirth'.

14. By contrast to Irish immigrants in Britain, most of the coloured immigrants come from countries that are hotter and sunnier than Britain in the summer and even throughout the year, thereby sharing with the British a pagan bias which is simply, if anything, more intensive than that of the British themselves.

15. Thus, unlike the Irish, they do not generally find themselves at cross-purposes with the British, but blend-in with them on rather more intensively heathen terms.

16. The importance of climate and environment in conditioning, over the centuries, ethnic identities ... cannot and should not be underestimated!