CYCLE
SEVENTY-ONE
1. From the
Devil's music
to God's art via man's literature and woman's dance, as from the
punishment of
music to the grace of art via the criminality of literature and the sin
of
dance.
2. To contrast the fall from
scientific/economic
art to scientific/economic dance with the rise from scientific/economic
music
to scientific/economic literature on the one hand, and the salvation of
political/religious dance to political/religious art with the damnation
of
political/religious literature to political/religious music on the
other hand.
3. That which respectively falls and rises
is
germane, within scientific and economic parameters, to the Fallen and
to the
Risen, whereas that which is respectively saved and damned is germane,
within
political and religious parameters, to salvation and to damnation.
4. One can no more save that which has
fallen
than damn that which has risen ... except that the Fallen pass through
sin and
the Risen pass through crime.
5. Christ Himself was crucified as a common
criminal
and rose from the dead into Purgatory, whence He was effectively
joined, on
Earth, by nonconformists.
6. One can no more rise to Heaven than fall
from
Hell. One can only fall from
scientific/economic Heaven to the scientific/economic World, and rise
to
scientific/economic Purgatory from scientific/economic Hell. Damnation and salvation are quite otherwise.
7. He who would save from the
political/religious World to the political/religious Heaven is not of
the
World, still less Purgatory, but a 'Child of Heaven' who has about as
much in
common with the World as Saturn with the earth.
8. One is less of an outsider, in relation
to
the World, as a solar Devil ... than as a Saturnian
God, since Saturn is eight or nine time farther from the earth than the
sun.
9. The World is first and foremost a place
for
worldly people, who reflect the immediacy of the world in a way which
no
outsider ever can, not even the least of outsiders, who are less
diabolical and
solar than purgatorial and lunar.
10. Easier to be a man than
a Devil, but easier to be a Devil than a God vis-à-vis the womanly
World.
11. One could speak of the mundane World as
existing under the purgatorial Overworld,
while to
either side of this Overworld, behind and
beyond it,
are to be found the hellish Netherworld and the heavenly Otherworld -
the
latter considerably harder of attainment than the former!
12. If the goal of evolution is Heaven, then it is
indubitably at the World's expense, and hence the prevailing powers
that
condition and dominate the lives of a majority of people, necessarily
worldly,
on Earth. Yet Heaven, with its
Saturn-like distance from the world, is so tangential to mundane life
... that
only the most radical type of outsider (in relation to the World) could
be expected
to champion it.
13. God is such an outsider, for whom the insiders
of this world are fleshy sinners whose mundane lives fall well-short of
divine
grace, just as the earth falls well-short of Saturn.
Verily, salvation is a tremendous leap for
anyone of the World/Mother to make, particularly with crime and
punishment
lurking nearby, like the Moon/Son and the Sun/Father, obstacles, in a
sense, to
the graceful beatitude of Saturn/the Holy Spirit of Heaven.
14. Ultimately, if Saturn/Heaven is to become more
the rule than the exception, then not only the Earth/World, but the
Sun/Hell
and the Moon/Purgatory must be overcome and effectively neutralized, so
that
their influence on humanity is reduced in proportion to the increase of
spiritual influence.
