CYCLE EIGHTY-NINE

1. The hellish will of the heart to beat; the heavenly will of the lungs to breathe; the purgatorial will of the brain to think; the mundane will of the penis to ejaculate.

2. As I have already contended, there are four kinds of will, viz. that of the soul, the spirit, the intellect, and the flesh. Yet, despite this fact, the will of the soul, viz. of the heart to beat, is so much more powerful and active than the other types of will ... that it alone has the right to be regarded as the will per se, and thus be conceived in terms of its relation to the Devil, the sun, time, fundamentalism, etc., as that which is at the roots of life. By contrast, the will of the spirit, viz. of the lungs to breathe, is virtually will-less in its heavenly passivity, a passivity of calm breathing which contrasts with the regular pulsations of the heart, as Heaven with Hell, or God with the Devil. It is for this reason that we can speak of transcending or, better, negating the will of the soul through the spirit; though, strictly speaking, it is the mind, or intellect, which negates the will per se, and then the spirit which transcends the mind, since to transcend is to go beyond what already exists as a precondition of transcendence. The mind does, the soul doesn't. In fact, the soul, being fundamentalist, is as far removed from the possibility of transcendence as it is possible to be. God does not transcend the Devil; He exists as his antithesis. God transcends man per se, which is equivalent to saying that Heaven transcends Purgatory, or the spirit ... the mind. God, or Heaven or spirit, is the only transcendence. For the Devil, or Hell or soul, is neither purgatorial nor transcendent but fundamental to nature, and hence the World. Likewise the heart is fundamental to the body, whereas the lungs, by contrast, may be held to transcend the brain.

3. The expression 'over the moon' is doubtless one that most people would be familiar with, though it may not be quite so clear to them that there is only one way in which one can be 'over the moon', viz. in a Saturn-oriented direction, and that such an expression has nothing whatsoever to do with the Sun or, more remotely, the stars in general. Being 'over the moon' is effectively to experience the 'peace that surpasses all understanding' and thus to have transcended the mind through the spirit, or the brain through the lungs. Were one closer to the Sun than to Saturn in one's feelings, however, one would not be 'over the moon' but 'behind' it, and thus effectively damned to an emotional conflagration of fundamentalist import. Joy takes one 'over the moon', but pride and love take one 'behind' it.

4. When one contrasts, in imagination, the fiery inferno of the Sun with the gaseous compactness of Saturn, there can be no doubt in one's mind that the Sun is Hell or, at any rate, hellish (helium being a Hell-like word, as, incidentally, is heliotropic), and Saturn if not literally Heaven then, at any rate, heavenly ... in its seeming calmness, a calmness surrounded by three halo-like rings which suggest, if not confirm, a saintly standing. Be that as it may, only a fool, while cognizant of the distinctions between these two in many ways antithetical bodies, would regard the Sun as being somehow more heavenly than Saturn, as though Heaven were a raging ball of flame! Similarly, only a fool or, more likely, complete madman would regard the Sun as being somehow saner than Saturn. And yet, populist thinking does effectively confirm such a regard, since the earth is so much closer to the Sun than to Saturn or than Saturn is to the Sun ... that many if not most people tend to take their bearings from the Sun and to denounce those whom they perceive as going against it, by rejecting populist attitudes, as madmen! As though cosmic propinquity were alone sufficient to make the Sun sane and Saturn mad, or to justify a stance which dismisses 'rebirths' and 'transvaluations' as insane delusions!

5. No, we may be considerably nearer, and therefore more exposed to, the Sun's influence than to Saturn, but the fact nonetheless remains that the Sun is a raging inferno which is as far removed from true sanity as it is possible to be. Indeed, such an inferno is palpably subsane, which is to say completely mad, whereas Saturn would, I think, more approximate the supersanity of the spirit in its gaseous aloofness from the Sun and comparative calm. But here we are on a largely insane planet, a planet which plays host to the heliotropic nature of Nature, and therefore it is not to be wondered at if the attitude of average down-to-earth folk to the Sun is correspondingly insane. For to have a relatively sane attitude to the Sun, one has to be reborn into Christ and thus be someone who has effectively abandoned the earth for the moon in his ethical stance before life, becoming correspondingly saner in one's mind as intellect eclipses the flesh. Then one can see the Sun for what it really is and re-orientate one's mind towards the purgatorial hope of greater sanity in the spiritual Beyond.