CYCLE EIGHTY-SIX

1. There is a sense in which, because nuclear weapons tend to reproduce the solar condition of atomic fission on Earth, they are instruments of the Devil and thus of Hell. In fact, so diabolical are nuclear weapons that it is inconceivable they could be developed or used by societies with a divine essence. For a society built around God (the Holy Spirit of Heaven) would be beyond the use of such weapons, just as artists and philosophers, when true, are beyond any sort of acquiescence in their use. Only communist and liberal societies will develop and, if necessary, use nuclear weapons - the former as an instrument of aggressive policy and the latter for defensive purposes, with immoral and amoral implications respectively. If, in the future, such weapons are banned, it will be because divine criteria have come to the fore at the expense of the World and taken mankind beyond the levels at which nuclear weapons become politic. The 'bomb' can only be truly 'banned' from a divine standpoint, the standpoint, I need hardly add, of the Holy Spirit of Heaven, and hence a Social Transcendentalist Centre.

2. Nature is superficially objective (the earth) and profoundly subjective (the World); civilization is profoundly objective (the moon) and superficially subjective (purgatory); barbarism is profoundly objective (the sun) and superficially subjective (hell); culture is superficially objective (the cosmos) and profoundly subjective (heaven). Hence where nature and culture are alike superficially objective and profoundly subjective, civilization and barbarism are alike profoundly objective and superficially subjective. This means that whereas nature and culture are centred in the subjective (to their mutual exclusion), civilization and barbarism are rooted in the objective (to their mutual exclusion).

3. Objects presuppose objectivity. Indeed, the very word 'objectivity' would be unthinkable without an object to which it pertains, like the sun or the moon. Conversely, subjects presuppose subjectivity, and it would be no less unthinkable to conceive of subjectivity where there was no subject. Yet subjectivity has traditionally been given a raw deal in Western society, which is rooted in the objective, both autocratically and plutocratically, and therefore the subjective has generally been regarded as somehow inferior to the objective, the subjectivity of 'subjects' vis-à-vis the reigning monarch, whose status is necessarily objective, being a case in point. Bad as this is in regard to nature, it is much worse where culture is concerned; for no genuine spirituality can thrive where there is a lack of respect, founded on objectivity, for subjective values. Only, alas, a perverted culture whose 'bovaryized' deities reflect the hegemony of the objective, both in law and economics, science and technology. The moral desirability of genuine culture, however, remains as pressing as ever, as does the hope, expressed through the Lord's Prayer, of its eventual attainment. Not until the objective has been democratically overcome, however, will the subjectivity of true culture come to pass, bringing with it not only a New Age but a New Order, the order of the 'Kingdom Within', which is 'beyond the pale' of objective evaluation. It will be as though the World had passed from its own phenomenal subjectivity to the noumenal subjectivity, via the Second Coming, of Saturn, turning away from both the sun and the moon in the process of its heavenly redemption in God.

4. Man-become-devil explodes orgasmically into woman per se, who implodes herself through pregnancy or, rather, her deliverance thereof. Man per se expresses himself through the Word, while the air impresses God, lifting Him to greater heights of joyful Being.

5. To be impressed by the air, one must first of all use the air impressively, focusing it to a point of centrist beatitude. In such fashion, following the path of meditation, the (condition of) supreme Being is cultivated to a pitch of joyful release from mundane bondage.

6. There is no joyful release which is not through and by the air, nor any supreme Being which is independent of this release. The supreme Being of the Holy Spirit is only possible on the basis of a sustained commitment to the cultivation of Heaven, which is to the Holy Spirit what art is to religion. In fact, art is the technique of religion in a realistic context, whereas meditation is the technique of religion in an idealistic and therefore truly divine context, the context of culture per se, whose essence is inner contemplation.