CYCLE SEVENTEEN

1. The essence of Being contrasts with the appearance of Doing (whether negative or positive in each case). The heavenly condition is essential and the infernal condition apparent. God and Devil.

2. The quantity of Taking contrasts with the quality of Giving (whether negative or positive in each case). The purgatorial condition is quantitative and the mundane condition qualitative. Man and woman.

3. Damnation is from the quantity of Taking to the appearance of Doing, as from Purgatory to Hell.

4. Salvation is from the quality of Giving to the essence of Being, as from the World to Heaven.

5. For God, where God is (essential) is more important than when God is (apparent), what God is (quantitative) or how God is (qualitative). Whereas for the Devil, when the Devil does (apparent) is more important than where the Devil does (essence), what the Devil does (quantitative), or how the Devil does (qualitative).

6. For man, what man takes (quantitative) is more important than how man takes (qualitative), when man takes (apparent), or where man takes (essential). Whereas for woman, how woman gives (qualitative) is more important than what woman gives (quantitative), when woman gives (apparent), or where woman gives (essential).

7. The 'where' of space contrasts with the 'when' of time, while the 'what' of volume contrasts with the 'how' of mass.

8. Unlike man and woman, who are relative and therefore capable of giving (feminine) and taking (masculine), God and the Devil, being absolute, can only be (divine) or do (diabolic), never be and do by turns. Hence whereas even the worst men are capable of giving and the best women of taking, even if to a limited extent ... relative to their basic gender, God is no more capable of doing than the Devil of being. Time is beneath God and space above the Devil. In fact, God would no more be capable of doing evil (in time) than the Devil of being good (in space).

9. As impossible to be evil ... as to do good ... from the standpoints of the Divine and the Diabolic. Absolute goodness is exemplified through Being and absolute evil through Doing. Relative goodness is exemplified through Giving and relative evil through Taking.

10. To contrast the subjectivism (noumenal) of Being with the objectivism (noumenal) of Doing on the one hand, and the objectivity (phenomenal) of Taking with the subjectivity (phenomenal) of Giving on the other hand. Hence where the subjective alternatives are essential (noumenal) and qualitative (phenomenal), the objective alternatives are apparent (noumenal) and quantitative (phenomenal).