CYCLE FIFTY

1. Bad people see in morality not a means to improving themselves/their selves, but an excuse for criticizing and condemning others. It is as though, incapable of becoming good, they must find or imagine faults in others, thereby assuming some degree of superior status over them in their own estimation.

2. We should not forget that while there are bad people and good people, there are also bad peoples and good peoples, the former of whom usually have dominion over the latter, constraining them to objective criteria and thereby preventing or inhibiting their development of subjectivity. In fact, to objective peoples 'subjectivity' is a dirty word and those given to it are perceived as being 'too subjective' or 'overly subjective', or words to that effect.

3. For subjective people(s), the sun and the moon are not just cosmic facts, but a moral problem, since the sun is no less the source of noumenal objectivity in the world ... than the moon is arguably the source of phenomenal objectivity there, and both kinds of objectivity fly in the face of moral, or subjective, considerations. Naturally, we cannot get rid of the sun and the moon, but a time may come when, due to substantial changes in the world, their influence will be considerably reduced, enabling a more subjective humanity to turn increasingly away from the external cosmos in the interests of spiritual development directed towards a supra-terrestrial goal through the 'Kingdom Within'.

4. Although the above entry might seem to be hinting at apocalyptic upheavals, there is no doubt in my mind that positive steps could be taken by peoples with the capability and ideological courage to reduce solar and/or lunar influence on the world, not least of all in terms of building large panels or shields which could be transported into space and, following reassembly there, sited in such a way as to reduce, say, the sun's influence here, thereby systematically changing the structure of existence on Earth with regard to omega-oriented criteria.

5. Doubtless, there would be stages in the degree to which solar influence could be reduced, if not eventually excluded altogether, in this way. But I see no reason why technology should not be able to make substantial contributions to the advancement of evolution on Earth by effectively shielding superhumanity (as we may call a more morally-advanced humanity) from the heathen influences of such cosmic phenomena. After all, it may be necessary, at first, to protect mankind in such fashion from the so-called 'greenhouse effect' caused by depletion of the ozone layer due in no small measure to industrial and other pollutants, and although such a protective strategy would be largely if not entirely pragmatic ... it could well become the basis from which (as so often happens in life) more idealistic motivations would eventually spring, thereby showing the 'greenhouse effect' to have been a sort of blessing in disguise.