CYCLE FIFTEEN
1. Essence and quality are no more commensurate
than appearance and quantity. For whereas quantity and quality are physical, essence and
appearance are metaphysical - the former pair phenomenal and the latter pair noumenal.
2. Strictly speaking, essence is correlative
with the divine (being), appearance correlative with the diabolic (doing). Likewise, quantity is correlative with the
masculine (taking) and quality correlative with the feminine (giving). Hence one should speak of the beingful essence of God, but ... the doingful
appearance of the Devil. Or, similarly,
of the takingful quantity, as it were, of man, but
... the givingful quality, so to speak, of
woman. Consequently, for God what he or,
rather, it is ... is more important than what he/it does, takes, or
gives. While, for the Devil, what he/it does
... is more important than what he/it is, takes, or gives. Similarly, for man, what he takes ...
is more important than what he is, does, or gives. Whereas for woman, by contrast, what she gives
... is more important than what she is, does, or takes. Obviously, the other factors enter into
account in all four contexts to greater or lesser extents. But they will be subordinate, so I contend,
to the principal attribute of each context!
3. Hence appearance, quantity, and quality will
be subordinate to essence in the divine context of Being, whilst essence,
quantity, and quality will be subordinate to appearance in the diabolic context
of Doing. Likewise, essence, appearance,
and quality will be subordinate to quantity in the masculine context of Taking,
whilst essence, appearance, and quantity will be subordinate to quality in the
feminine context of Giving. In the
divine context, to take a single example, the essence of Being, say negative
Being, will be the woeful horror vacui of
elemental photon particles diverging from a spatial vacuum, which will take
metaphysical precedence over the appearance of negative Being, viz. light, or the
illusion of speeding photon particles, as well as over the (comparatively
physical) quantity and quality of negative Being - the former dependent upon
the amount of electricity powering the light energy and the latter upon the
nature of the means through which it is filtered to the external environment,
e.g. wattage, colour and shape of light bulb, etc. Now the quantity of light is doubtless an
important factor in the overall production of light energy, as is the quality
of what is produced. But, from a
metaphysical standpoint, it is less significant than the essence and even the
appearance of light, which brings us back to illusion (speed) and woe (negative
Being).
