CYCLE EIGHTY-EIGHT

1. To contrast, absolutely, the subsanity of the soul with the supersanity of the spirit, but to contrast, relatively, the sanity of the mind with the insanity of the flesh. Or, equivalently, to contrast, in noumenal terms, the sub-reasonableness of the Father with the super-reasonableness of the Holy Ghost, while contrasting, in phenomenal terms, the reasonableness of the Son with the unreasonableness of the Mother.

2. The opposite of sanity is insanity, or that which, in relative terms, is not sane, whereas the opposite of supersanity is subsanity, or that which, in absolute terms, is beneath sanity. Where sanity is intellectual and purgatorial, insanity is sensual and worldly. Where supersanity is spiritual and heavenly, subsanity is emotional and hellish.

3. Because nature is largely heliotropic, it could be argued that nature is fundamentally insane, since orientated backwards, as it were, towards the sun. The same must, to a lesser extent, apply to woman vis-à-vis man-become-Devil, the sensuality of the former sucking-up to the emotionality (love) of the latter in a nature-emulating way.

4. Whereas nature and woman are fundamentally insane by dint of their retrogressive orientation, civilization and man are comparatively sane, since having the capacity to be progressively orientated towards the Beyond and its spiritual supersanity. Such supersanity, contrasting absolutely with the subsanity of the diabolic Behind, or Hell, is one with genuine culture in the 'peace that surpasses all understanding'. Yet understanding, or the Word and its intellectual comprehension, is a precondition of that divine peace, a peace which contrasts with the war between barbarism, viz. man-become-Devil, and nature, viz. woman, for the soul and/or flesh of its principal antagonists.