CYCLE NINE

1. From the standpoint of Christianity, which is individualistic phenomenality vis-à-vis omega divinity (the 'Kingdom of Heaven' within), the contrary position of Islam ... must seem anti-Christic, since an individualistic phenomenality which is alpha orientated must be rather more negative and devolutionary than positive and evolutionary. Hence a sort of particle/wavicle dichotomy between Mohammedanism and Christianity on the lunar spectrum of intellectual materialism ('the Book'). Likewise, from the standpoint of Socialism, which is collectivistic phenomenality vis-à-vis omega divinity (the classless Millennium to come), the contrary position of Judaism ... must seem anti-Socialist, since a collectivistic phenomenality which is alpha orientated must be rather more negative and devolutionary than positive and evolutionary. Hence a sort of particle/wavicle dichotomy between Judaism and Socialism on the planar spectrum of instinctual realism (the class or, more specifically in this context, gender struggle).

2. Just as Christianity split into various denominations, of which Catholicism, Anglicanism, and Puritanism are the three principal divisions, so Socialism did likewise, with Communism, Nazism, and Fascism symptomatic of the sort of divisions which so characterize Christianity. For, despite superficial differences and antagonistic relations, Communism, Nazism, and Fascism are really different manifestations of Socialism, just as Catholicism, Anglicanism, and Puritanism are different manifestations of and approaches to Christianity. The significant difference between the two religions, however, is that whereas Socialism is, like Judaism before it, a religion of the World, Christianity, like Mohammedanism, is a religion of Purgatory, with, in consequence, a lunar rather than planar fulcrum. Hence where Christianity is most pedantically Christian in Puritanism, Socialism, by contrast, is most pedantically Socialist in Communism, which is no less unequivocally working class than ... Puritanism, its Christian antithesis, is middle class.

3. Thus if Christianity is most middle class (because lunar) in Puritanism, it is rather more balanced between the middle and working classes in Anglicanism, but biased on the side of the working class in Catholicism, the mode of Christianity which more approximates the World. Conversely, if Socialism is most working class in Communism, the worldly mode of Socialism par excellence, it is rather more balanced between the working and middle classes in Nazism, but biased on the side of the middle class in Fascism, the mode of Socialism which more approximates to Purgatory. But such a bias is not commensurate with being middle class per se, any more than the working-class bias of Catholicism would enable one to regard it as a working-class ideology. The fulcrums of Socialism and Christianity being as different (and contrary) as they are, we can no more regard Fascism and Puritanism as identical than ... Communism and Catholicism. This is why Fascists, despite their middle-class bias, are not Puritans, while Catholics, despite their working-class bias, are not Communists. Only Puritans can truly reflect middle-class values, just as, from a contrary standpoint, only Communists truly reflect working-class ones - the former materialistic and the latter realistic, Nonconformism and Humanism, intellect and will, capitalism and syndicalism, democracy and bureaucracy, man and woman.