CYCLE SEVENTY-SIX

1. A religious society, which is necessarily idealistic, has a 'bovaryized' law (ecclesiastical), politics (totalitarian), and economics (corporate), because it is true to the divine Beyond (transcendentalism).

2. A political society, which is necessarily realistic, has a 'bovaryized' economics (socialist), law (natural), and religion (humanist), because it is true to the mundane World (republicanism).

3. An economic society, which is necessarily materialistic, has a 'bovaryized' politics (parliamentary), religion (nonconformist), and law (civil), because it is true to the purgatorial Overworld (capitalism).

4. A judicial society, which is necessarily naturalistic, has a 'bovaryized' religion (fundamentalist), politics (authoritarian), and economics (communist), because it is true to the diabolic Behind (Bolshevism).

5. The Bolsheviks revelled in 'show trials', as befitting the judicial essence of Soviet Communism, and meted out penal sentences not merely to thousands but to millions of Soviet citizens, condemning them to death and/or slave labour in concentration camps. Such a judicial society was rooted in criminal law - Lenin himself having been a practising lawyer - and necessarily sought the criminalization of millions of its people. This was literally Hell on Earth, the barbarousness of criminal law in the ascendant and constraining politics, economics, and religion to its diabolical will. Lenin, a devil incarnate, revelled in this deplorable state-of-affairs, as, of course, did his more infamous successor, Stalin.

6. When we contrast the alpha of law with the omega of law, viz. criminal law with ecclesiastical law, it becomes evident that whereas the former strives to punish crime or alleged criminal offence, the latter seeks, by contrast, to absolve people from sin, thereby granting them grace. Hence crime and punishment on the one hand, but sin and grace on the other.

7. Just as science is the illustration of law, so art is the illustration of religion. And just as technology is the illustration of economics, so sport is the illustration of politics.

8. It is as impossible to divorce science from law ... as to divorce art from religion, technology from economics, or sport from politics. Impossible, at any rate, without doing a grave disservice to science, art, technology, and sport. Although 'bovaryizations' of each context will of course apply, relevant to the preponderating element at any given time, and such 'bovaryizations', in keeping with their complementary disciplines, have to be accepted on their own terms. Hence a truly religious society, with a genuine art in accompaniment, would necessarily have to include 'bovaryized' modes of law/science, politics/sport, and economics/technology, just as a truly judicial society, with a genuine science in accompaniment, would have to include 'bovaryized' modes of religion/art, politics/sport, and economics/technology.