CYCLE TWENTY-THREE

1. NOUMENAL SELFISHNESS. Whereas the quasi-culture of the Christ Child is prayerfully selfish, the quasi-superculture of the Second Coming is contemplatively selfish, since given-up to the hallucinogenic enlightenment of visionary experience such that intimates, no matter how indirectly, of the selfish universality of the transcendental Beyond. Thus artificial visionary experience goes beyond the selfish phenomenality of both quasi-cultural prayer and pseudo-cultural posthumous visions through the noumenal selfishness of its hallucinogenic essence, and is therefore a suitable platform from which to launch transcendentalism towards that ultimate selfishness which is its supercultural reward. For the Holy Spirit of Heaven can only stem from a Messianic precondition of quasi-supercultural transcendence, and unless and until such a precondition is met ... there can be no definitive salvation ... to the noumenal selfishness of transcendental meditation. So long as the power of external artificial visionary experience has not been broken ... through recourse to its internal counterpart, the path to the transcendental Beyond will remain closed.

2. NOUMENAL SELFLESSNESS. By contrast to the quasi-supercultural selfishness of the Second Coming and the genuine supercultural selfishness of the Holy Spirit of Heaven, the subnaturalism of the overall context of the Mary Child is selfless, if in a pseudo, because subjective, manner ... such that strives for selflessness not in terms of a Christian vacuum (of celibacy), but with regard to a Superchristian vacuum (of abortion), a paradoxical order of selflessness which is empty where Christian selflessness is holy and Heathen selfishness ... profane. For the context of 'Mary-Child' feminism is neither objectively selfless, like that of Virgin-Mary celibacy, nor objectively selfish, like that of maternal fecundity, but subjectively selfless in its endeavour to achieve emptiness via fecundity. And in this endeavour it arouses the antipathy of the Christian Church for its rejection of both the Mother and the Virgin Mary, since in subverting the one it debases the other, and no devotee of the Virgin can feel morally secure while vacuums are being achieved not through Christian celibacy but, on the contrary, at the expense of Heathen fecundity. Hence the opposition which abortion engenders in countries, like Eire, with a long tradition of Catholic selflessness vis-à-vis the Blessed Virgin. It is not the attack on Heathen fecundity itself which is the real moral issue (for an amoral heathen context does not reasonably permit of moral evaluation or defence), but its subversive effect on Christian morality and tendency, in consequence, to undermine the traditionally inviolable sanctity of the Virgin Mary. Yet the Church's response to such a threat, while understandable from a Christian standpoint, is effectively obstructive of 'feminist progress' and thus, by implication, the likelihood, in due Messianic time, of the development, at feminism's expense, of a Superchristian resolve in 'Kingdom Come'. For there can be no 'Kingdom Come', and thus Social Transcendentalist Centre, where the feminist precondition in the Mary Child is lacking, since no Superchristian Heaven without a Superchristian or, more correctly, post-Christian Hell, such that achieves its vacuum through emptiness, in accordance with its profanely selfless essence. Ultimately, the Church is powerless to prevent the development of this post-Christian Hell, which is driven on by pressures, both evolutionary and social, beyond the bounds of Christian morality. I do not condone such an anti-Christian development, but neither would I wish to condemn it outright, like a Christian, when my own Superchristian interests are potentially if not literally at stake. For without the Mary Child, in whatever feminist form she takes, there can be no 'Kingdom Come' and thus no 'end of the World', but only a World-denying Church which is obliged, willy-nilly, to accommodate itself to the World (of heathen and thus, by implication, maternal values) as best it can, even at the expense of truth.