CYCLE FIFTY-THREE

1. Impossible to remain detached, the requirement of true wisdom, whilst one is yet a victim of the heart, with its passions, emotions, possessiveness, covetousness. For where the heart rules, the lungs are to all intents and purposes 'beyond the pale', and no true wisdom is possible. Thus rejection of the passionate folly of a life based in the heart is a precondition of wisdom, and although such a rejection is not impossible for a youth, whose heart beats more vigorously, it is more likely to be of lasting attainment with maturity, when unseemly passions could well prove of mortal, never mind moral, danger to the individual concerned!

2. One should note a correlation between the moon and the brain, the sun and the heart, the earth and the womb (and/or sex organs generally), and the Beyond and the lungs, bearing in mind, however, that whereas the brain, heart, and sex organs are rooted in the alpha (even if they extend, in positivity, towards the omega), the lungs are alone of the omega, and thus capable of sustaining that which, as spirit, can transcend the World and become one with the heavenly substance, viz. air, upon which we depend for our life.

3. The spirit that is at one with the air one breathes ... is most finely attuned to itself and capable of becoming superconscious of its true essence ... as joy in the lightness of air.

4. Although all men are composites of brain, heart, sex organs, and lungs, the degree to which they have a bias for one or another of the four cardinal elements ... varies from person to person and society to society, from class to class and age to age. We cannot pretend that all men are equal in God ... the Holy Ghost ... when the evidence of life would suggest that not only alternative 'divinities', viz. the Father, the Son, and the Mother, have to be reckoned with, but, worse again, alternative 'antidivinities' ... such as the Antispirit (Jehovah), the Antifather (Satan), the Antison (Antichrist), and the Antimother (Cursed Whore), to which most men at some time or another pay tribute, and from which some of them draw the greater part of their (necessarily negative) elemental allegiance. Hence in the case of the Antispirit, lungs which are subordinate to light and cursed with (spatial) space; in the case of the Antifather, a heart which is subordinate to fire and cursed with (sequential) time; in the case of the Antison, a brain which is subordinate to water and cursed with (volumetric) volume; and in the case of the Antimother, a womb which is subordinate to earth and cursed with (massed) mass. How different, then, from lungs which are host to holy spirit and blessed with (spaced) Heaven; a heart which is host to holy soul and blessed with (repetitive) Hell; a brain which is host to holy mind and blessed with (voluminous) Purgatory; or a womb which is host to holy will and blessed with the (massive) World. And yet, preferable though the latter - and positive - options may be in relation to their negative counterparts, how inadequate and morally inferior are the blessings of the World, Purgatory, and Hell when compared with the blessing of Heaven - the Holy Spirit which is conscious of nothing but the air which it is the privilege of the lungs to host, and which is therefore pure, purged of emotional, intellectual, and sexual impurities in relation to itself!

5. Blessed are the pure in spirit, for they shall be God (the Holy Spirit of Heaven).

6. Blessed, too, are the pure in soul, for they shall feel the Devil (the Holy Soul of Hell).

7. Blessed, also, are the pure in mind, for they shall know Man (the Holy Mind of Purgatory).

8. Blessed, even, are the pure in will, for they shall experience Woman (the Holy Will of the World).

9. But cursed are the impure in light, for they shall be Antigod (the Clear Light of Space).

10. Cursed, too, are the impure in fire, for they shall feel the Antidevil (the Clear Heat of Time).

11. Cursed, also, are the impure in water, for they shall know Antiman (the Clear Coldness of Volume).

12. Cursed, even, are the impure in earth, for they shall experience Antiwoman (the Clear Darkness of Mass).