CYCLE SIXTY-FOUR
1. From hellish
punishment to heavenly grace via purgatorial crime and mundane sin.
2. From power-time to
truth-space via knowledge-crime and beauty-mass.
3. From the punishment
of Time to the grace of Space via the criminality of Volume and the sinfulness
of
4. From the least graceful Time-Space of
scientific idealism to the most graceful Space-Space of religious
transcendentalism via the less (relative to least) graceful Volume-Space of
economic corporatism and the more (relative to most) graceful Mass-Space of
political totalitarianism.
5. From the most
punishing Time-Time of scientific naturalism to the least punishing Space-Time
of religious fundamentalism via the more (relative to most) punishing
Volume-Time of economic communism and the less (relative to least) punishing Mass-Time
of political authoritarianism.
6. From the most criminal Time-Volume of
scientific materialism to the least criminal Space-Volume of religious nonconformism via the more (relative to most) criminal
Volume-Volume of economic capitalism and the less (relative to least) criminal
Mass-Volume of political parliamentarianism.
7. From the least sinful Time-Mass of scientific
realism to the most sinful Space-Mass of religious humanism via the less
(relative to least) sinful Volume-Mass of economic socialism and the more
(relative to most) sinful Mass-Mass of political republicanism.
8. Just as grace properly begins with Supreme
Being, so the proper beginning of sin is with Supreme Giving. For grace adheres rather
more to the subjectivity of Heaven, both outer and inner, than to the (by
comparison) objectivity of culture, while sin likewise adheres rather more to
the subjectivity of the World, both outer and inner, than to the (by
comparison) objectivity of nature.
9. Conversely, just as punishment properly ends
with Primal Doing, so the proper ending of crime is
with Primal Taking. For
punishment adheres rather more to the objectivity of barbarism, both outer and
inner, than to the (by comparison) subjectivity of Hell, while crime likewise
adheres rather more to the objectivity of civilization, both outer and inner,
than to the (by comparison) subjectivity of Purgatory.
10. Heterosexuality is a blend of male and female
elements in what is effectively a meeting of crime and sin.
11. There is more crime in homosexuality than in
heterosexuality, and more sin in lesbianism than in heterosexuality, the reason
being that whereas heterosexuality is both male and female, homosexuality is
exclusively male and lesbianism exclusively female - the former broadly appertaining
to Volume and the latter to Mass.
12. Masturbation is a sort of absolute
homosexuality and voyeurism, by contrast, a sort of absolute lesbianism.
13. When masturbation and voyeurism blend, as in
the use of pornographic erotica, one can speak of noumenal
heterosexuality, the abstract equivalent of conventional heterosexuality, which
is phenomenal.
14. Noumenal
heterosexuality is a blend of grace and punishment, rather than of crime and
sin.
15. There is no crime in masturbation - only
punishment.
16. Conversely, there is no sin in voyeurism -
only grace.
17. To regard masturbation as sinful is as
illogical as it would be to regard voyeurism as criminal. Sin appertains to the mundane realm of
nature/the world, and crime to the lunar realm of civilization/purgatory.
18. Strictly speaking, there are two kinds of
lesbianism, viz. an objective kind involving actual bodies and a subjective
kind involving recourse to plastic inflatables and/or
vibrators.
19. The objective kind of lesbianism stems from
the old-brain side of the left midbrain, and the subjective kind from the
new-mind side of the unconscious.
20. Strictly speaking, there are two kinds of
homosexuality, viz. an objective kind involving actual bodies and a subjective
kind involving recourse to plastic inflatables and/or
vibrators.
21. The objective kind of homosexuality stems from
the old-brain side of the right midbrain, and the subjective kind from the
new-mind side of the conscious.
22. Strictly speaking, there are two kinds of
phenomenal heterosexuality, viz. an objective kind involving actual bodies and
a subjective kind involving recourse to plastic inflatables
and/or vibrators.
23. The objective kind of phenomenal
heterosexuality stems from the old-brain side of the corpus callosum
(linking right to left midbrains), and the subjective kind from the new-mind
side of the ego.
24. If we turn, now, from the phenomenal realms of
lesbianism/heterosexuality/homosexuality to the noumenal
realms of voyeurism/heterosexuality/masturbation, we shall find that the latter
are likewise divisible between an objective and a subjective alternative.
25. Strictly speaking, there are two kinds of
voyeurism, viz. an objective kind involving actual bodies and a subjective kind
involving (passive) recourse to pornographic erotica.
26. The objective kind of voyeurism stems from the
old-brain side of the forebrain, and the subjective kind from the new-mind side
of the superconscious.
27. Strictly speaking, there are two kinds of
masturbation, viz. an objective kind involving manual manipulation and a
subjective kind involving recourse to autonomous devices.
28. The objective kind of masturbation stems from
the old-brain side of the backbrain, and the
subjective kind from the new-mind side of the subconscious.
29. Strictly speaking, there are two kinds of noumenal heterosexuality, viz. an objective kind involving
oral practices and a subjective kind involving (active) recourse to
pornographic erotica.
30. The objective kind of noumenal
heterosexuality stems from the old-brain side of the supercallosum
(linking forebrain to backbrain), and the subjective
kind from the new-mind side of the superego (linking superconscious
to subconscious).
