CYCLE SIXTY-SEVEN

1. To be, I need only sit still and get into my breathing, thereby becoming divine. Everything else - heart, brain, body - is transcended by my consciousness of the air I breathe and which refreshes me. I only truly live in and through the air, which is my Heaven. Without it, I, as a spiritual entity, would be dead. There are other types of life, viz. strong life in the blood, good life in the brain, beautiful life in the flesh. But in order to experience true life one must abandon these lower types of life and concentrate on the air, which is the life-blood, so to speak, of the spirit. Only in true life can one become divine.

2. Those who are most true to their spiritual self are of God in their consciousness of Heaven, and for them the lungs take precedence over the heart, the brain, and the flesh. Life for them is mainly spiritual, connected with consciousness of and in the air they breathe on the wings of their lungs. Emotional life, intellectual life, and sexual life are largely beneath their pale, as they strive ever more towards spiritual life, which is alone absolutely perfect in its adherence to truth. One might say that such perfection is an extreme rightness, or correctness, which appertains to God (the Holy Spirit of Heaven) and to God alone! It is in this noumenal subjectivity that Being comes absolutely to pass.

3. In contrast to the extreme rightness of God, we have the extreme wrongness, or incorrectness, of the Devil, which is the noumenal objectivity of the emotional life in relation to the heart and blood. The phenomenal objectivity of the sexual life in its relation to the flesh is, by comparison with the emotional life, only moderately wrong, while the phenomenal subjectivity of the intellectual life in its relation to the brain is, by comparison with the spiritual life, only moderately right, the rightness of man the knower of Purgatory as opposed to the wrongness of woman the bearer of the World. In political terms, rightness translates as Right, whether moderate or extreme, while wrongness translates as Left, whether moderate or extreme. The spiritual life is effectively extreme right-wing and the emotional life effectively extreme left-wing, while the intellectual life is moderate right wing and the sexual life ... moderate left wing. As it is for God and the Devil, so it is for man and woman!

4. The perfections of the subjective, both absolute and relative, stand apart from the imperfections of the objective, both absolute and relative. The absolute perfection of God contrasts noumenally with the absolute imperfection of the Devil, as truth with strength, while the relative perfection of man contrasts phenomenally with the relative imperfection of woman, as goodness with beauty. Perfection is essential, imperfection apparent. Perfection does not show itself. Imperfection does.