CYCLE EIGHTEEN

1. TRUE CHRISTIANS: The only people who have a lengthy experience, traditionally, of 'Heaven on Earth' are monks, who stand to nuns as Christian Supermen vis-à-vis Christian Subwomen. In fact, monks are really the only true and genuine Christians, if one accepts that being in a monastery is somewhat akin to 'Heaven on Earth', and thus to a supermasculine allegiance to the Holy Ghost. Certainly most so-called Christians are fundamentally Heathen in their commitment to familial obligations and routines, even in the case of Catholics, who are nevertheless relatively Christian when compared or, rather, contrasted with, say, Protestants, but still disposed, after their several fashions, to taking the Father, the Mother, and the Son for Christian deities! Even priests cannot be exonerated from such a shortcoming, which owes not a little to their own clerical standing as 'fathers', and there is no doubt in my mind that priests will generally be less Christian than monks, bearing in mind the heavenly aloofness of the latter from daily contact with the World.

2. THEOLOGICAL PARADOX. To my mind, the concept of the 'Ascension of the Virgin' into Heaven is a complete and utter contradiction in terms, since the Virgin, being vacuous, is for me synonymous with Hell, and I cannot understand how the theological symbol of a Christian Hell, the Hell of a virginal vacuum, could possibly ascend into Heaven which, as the realm of the Holy Ghost, is germane to the Superman. A Christian Devil can only be subfeminine in her vacuous denial of phenomenal self, and hence the World, and to conceive of the subfeminine ascending into a supermasculine realm ... is the height of theological nonsense! No woman can ever ascend into Heaven, least of all a virgin! Such 'liberal' notions as the 'Ascension of the Virgin' simply subvert Christian truth, which has to do with the salvation of men from women and the opening up, in consequence, of a supermasculine/subfeminine dichotomy between Heaven and Hell.

3. NO SEX. It would be no less 'liberal' and 'woolly-minded' to suppose that people retained their sex in Heaven, and that one could, in fact, mix with members of the opposite sex! Such a Heaven would be no better than the World, where the sexes are mixed, and no possibility of a superhuman Heaven (for men) accordingly exists (unlike in a monastery which, as we have argued, is a traditional manifestation of 'Heaven on Earth', where men are effectively Supermen in their monastic segregation from women).

4. SUPERMASCULINE ATTAINMENT. Make no mistake! One doesn't become a Superman, neither on the Christian level (relative to the Holy Ghost) nor on the Superchristian level (relative to the Holy Spirit of Heaven), by mixing with women! Only he is a Superman who can rise above women, thereby living the life of Heaven rather than of Purgatory/the World. For Heaven is a supermasculine attainment, and where there is an official Heaven there must sooner or later also be an official Hell ... to safeguard the devotees of Heaven from the possibility of purgatorial and/or worldly backslidings. Hell is as much a safeguard for Heaven as a punishment for subfeminine elements.

5. MORAL CHOICE. The division of 'the wheat' from 'the chaff' is, in some peculiar sense, the division of man from woman, the spirit from the flesh, as Purgatory/the World are wrenched asunder to make way for Heaven and Hell - the former supermasculine and the latter subfeminine. Hence, traditionally, monks correspond to 'the wheat' and nuns to 'the chaff', since the former exist with the Holy Ghost in Heaven, while the latter exist with the Virgin Mary in Hell. And yet, from a Christian standpoint, it is better that women should be in Hell rather than in their maternal element in the World. For then they are instruments of the Christian salvation of men (to Supermen), whereas in the World they are agents of the debasement and undoing of men who, as purgatorial or worldly Heathens, inevitably lose-out to them. Hence the choice for men is whether, as Heathens, to lose-out to women or whether, as Christians, to achieve a victory over them through superhuman salvation. Obviously, Heathens choose the former and Christians the latter. Such a choice, relative to phenomenal civilization, paves the way for the greater defeat of Heathens at the hands of Superheathens, and the greater victory of Christians through Superchristians, as the former are damned to noumenal science (cosmology) and the latter saved to noumenal religion (theosophy).