CYCLE THIRTY

1. The heart is the seat of the soul, pumping blood around the body twenty-four hours a day seven days a week, which is to say, on a continual basis which is no less a manifestation of absolute will than the continual breathing of the lungs a manifestation of absolute mind. For whereas the heart has intimate connections with the blood, and hence soul, the lungs have intimate connections with the air, and hence spirit. Without blood, no emotions. Without air, no consciousness.

2. By comparison to the heart, the sex organs are only intermittently in action ... as instinctual sensations, thereby confirming their relation to relative will, which is less noumenally objective (like the heart) than phenomenally subjective. Similarly, by comparison to the lungs, the brain is only intermittently in action ... as intellectual cogitations, thereby confirming its relation to relative mind, which is less noumenally subjective (like the lungs) than phenomenally objective. Hence while we can distinguish heart from lungs on the basis of an absolute dichotomy, that between the sex organs and the brain is rather more relative, as befitting their phenomenal standings in respective relation, primarily, to the mundane World and the purgatorial Overworld, both of which contrast with the noumenal standings of the heart and the lungs in respective relation, primarily, to Hell and Heaven, viz. soul and spirit, the former effectively diabolic (emotional) and the latter divine (spiritual).

3. Thus whereas the brain and the sex organs provide us with a vertical axis, so to speak, between man and woman, water and earth, the heart and the lungs provide us, by contrast, with a horizontal axis between the Devil and God, fire and air. For human beings are less images of God ... than composites of divine, diabolic, purgatorial, and mundane factors which, deriving from cosmic sources, exist in an uneasy symbiosis of mutual tensions, now this, now that, never entirely any one thing. Therefore the triumph of God over the Devil, man, and woman ultimately presupposes the overcoming of human beings by and through the development of post-human life forms engineered out of them to an ever-more divine pitch. For only in such a development will the Ideal come absolutely to pass, consigning diabolical naturalism, purgatorial materialism, and terrestrial (mundane) realism to the rubbish heaps of human history.