CYCLE THIRTY-NINE

1. To contrast the noumenal subjectivity of the Leader with the noumenal objectivity of the Ruler - each of whom are equally absolutist in their contrary ways.

2. Likewise to contrast the phenomenal subjectivity of the People's Representative with the phenomenal objectivity of the Senator - each of whom are equally relativistic in their contrary ways.

3. A democratic/bureaucratic society is effectively a society in transition between the military absolutism of an autocracy and the policing absolutism of a theocracy.

4. The more autocratic the society the more militaristic will it be, while, conversely, the most theocratic of societies will be that in which there is least, if any, militarism.

5. The ideal society can only be one in which, from the security point of view, there are most police and fewest soldiers.

6. No State that has been called a 'Police State' has ever been free of soldiers; for the State is always rooted in the army.

7. Only when States are democratically superseded by Centres (as customarily defined by me in relation to a context of mass religious sovereignty) will anything remotely approaching a policing absolutism finally come into being.

8. People who deride the police on principle ... are usually guilty of overlooking the military, and may well be accomplices, wittingly or unwittingly, of militarism.

9. Part of the reason why some people deride the police on principle ... is that such people are usually militarist by dint of their socialistic allegiance to the World - a context, contrary to Purgatory, of conventional militarism.

10. But beyond the militarism of the World, including that of the Salvation Army, is the secret/special police of the 'Kingdom of Heaven', and it is this police which must ultimately come to pass, if divine justice is to be done.

11. Unlike the splendid soldiery, who are rooted in the soul, the conventional soldiery are rooted in the will.

12. Unlike the conventional police, who are centred in the mind, the secret police are centred in the spirit.

13. Hence a correlation with heart and lungs in the absolute military and police contexts, but a correlation with sex organs and brain in the relative military and police contexts - the former noumenal, the latter phenomenal.