CYCLE THIRTY-FOUR

1. The private person has about as much chance of getting published ... as the public person of receiving privacy. In fact, publication and publicity are as germane to the public domain ... as privacy and privatization to the private one.

2. To publish philosophy, especially when of the highest metaphysical order (theosophical), is really a sort of contradiction in terms, since so intensely private a pursuit can only be understood and appreciated by a comparatively small minority of persons at the best of times, who lead, for the most part, intensely private lives.

3. No-one writes philosophy for money; together with fame and power, money is the last thing in the philosopher's mind.

4. One writes philosophy in order the better to understand both oneself and the world in general, and to establish, as far as is humanly possible, a new criterion of truth.

5. One doesn't write philosophy in order to start a revolution or found a new type of society. Such events are rather more a by-product of philosophy than a conscious philosophical aim.

6. The poet, who is virtually as far removed from the philosopher as the artist from the musician, is the worst of writers whose sympathy is, or should be, rather more with the Father than with the Holy Spirit. In fact, so much is the poet a creature of the heart ... that he is unable to escape from time.

7. So-called 'free verse' is rather more the 'poetry' of prose writers than of genuine poets.

8. If subjectivity is feminine and objectivity ... masculine, then subjectivity is left wing and objectivity ... right wing.

9. To conceive of a left-wing/right-wing dichotomy between femininity and masculinity is to distinguish between the phenomenal subjective as left wing and the phenomenal objective as right wing, since subjectivity is feminine and objectivity ... masculine.

10. Just as we distinguish between phenomenal and noumenal with regard to subjectivity, so we can distinguish the Left from the Extreme Left on the basis of a phenomenal/noumenal subjective distinction.

11. Whatever is left wing will be phenomenally subjective, whereas that which is extreme left wing will be noumenally subjective - a distinction, in effect, between the World and Heaven, or beauty and truth.

12. Just as we distinguish between phenomenal and noumenal with regard to objectivity, so we can distinguish the Right from the Extreme Right on the basis of a phenomenal/noumenal objective distinction.

13. Whatever is right wing will be phenomenally objective, whereas that which is extreme right wing will be noumenally objective - a distinction, in effect, between Purgatory and Hell, or knowledge and power (strength).

14. Just as beauty leads towards truth, so can the Left lead to the Extreme Left, as from phenomenal subjectivity to its noumenal counterpart.

15. And just as knowledge leads towards power, so can the Right lead to the Extreme Right, as from phenomenal objectivity to its noumenal counterpart.

16. The progression of beauty to truth, the Left to the Extreme Left, is akin to salvation - the salvation of the World to Heaven.

17. The progression or, rather, regression of knowledge to power, the Right to the Extreme Right, is akin to damnation - the damnation of Purgatory to Hell.

18. There are different ways of being left or right wing, extreme left or right wing, corresponding to the distinctions, for example, between science, economics, politics, and religion.

19. Broadly, and in general terms, science is extreme right wing, economics right wing, politics left wing, and religion extreme left wing; though this is relative to the per se positions in any given quadruplicity.

20. One could speak, in scientific terms, of the extreme right-wing nature of the ears (hearing) as against the extreme left-wing nature of the eyes (sight); as, indeed, of the right-wing nature of the tongue (taste) against the left-wing nature of the skin (touch).

21. Similarly one could speak of the extreme right-wing nature of naturalist fire as against the extreme left-wing nature of idealist light; as, indeed, of the right-wing nature of materialist water (ice) against the left-wing nature of realist earth.

22. By contrast, one could speak, in religious terms, of the extreme right-wing nature of fundamentalist soul as against the extreme left-wing nature of transcendentalist spirit; as, indeed, of the right-wing nature of nonconformist intellect against the left-wing nature of humanist will.

23. Likewise one could speak of the extreme right-wing nature of the heart as against the extreme left-wing nature of the lungs; as, indeed, of the religious right-wing nature of the brain against the left-wing nature of the womb.

24. By contrast, one could speak, in economic terms, of the extreme right-wing nature of communist time as against the extreme left-wing nature of corporate space; as, indeed, of the right-wing nature of capitalist volume against the left-wing nature of socialist mass.

25. Similarly one could speak of the extreme right-wing nature of the backbrain as against the extreme left-wing nature of the forebrain; as, indeed, of the economic right-wing nature of the right midbrain against the left-wing nature of the left midbrain.

26. By contrast, one could speak, in political terms, of the political extreme right-wing nature of authoritarian blood as against the extreme left-wing nature of totalitarian air; as, indeed, of the right-wing nature of parliamentary saliva against the left-wing nature of republican flesh.

27. Similarly one could speak of the extreme right-wing nature of the subconscious as against the extreme left-wing nature of the superconscious; as, indeed, of the right-wing nature of the conscious against the left-wing nature of the unconscious.

28. In noumenal religion, extreme right-wing fundamentalism contrasts with extreme left-wing transcendentalism ... as, in noumenal science, naturalism contrasts with idealism; as, in noumenal politics, authoritarianism contrasts with totalitarianism; and as, in noumenal economics, communism contrasts with corporatism.

29. In phenomenal religion, left-wing humanism contrasts with right-wing nonconformism ... as, in phenomenal science, realism contrasts with materialism; as, in phenomenal politics, republicanism contrasts with parliamentarianism; and as, in phenomenal economics, socialism contrasts with capitalism.

30. The religious salvation of humanism to transcendentalism is paralleled by the scientific 'salvation' of realism to idealism; the political salvation of republicanism to totalitarianism; and the economic 'salvation' of socialism to corporatism.

31. The religious damnation of nonconformism to fundamentalism is paralleled by the scientific 'damnation' of materialism to naturalism; the political damnation of parliamentarianism to authoritarianism; and the economic 'damnation' of capitalism to communism.

32. The salvation of beautiful religion (inner) and politics (outer) to truthful religion (inner) and politics (outer) is accompanied - or should be - by the 'salvation' of ugly science (anti-outer) and economics (anti-inner) to illusory science (anti-outer) and economics (anti-inner).

33. The damnation of knowledgeable religion (inner) and politics (outer) to strong religion (inner) and politics (outer) is accompanied - or should be - by the 'damnation' of ignorant science (anti-outer) and economics (anti-inner) to weak science (anti-outer) and economics (anti-inner).