CYCLE TWENTY-EIGHT

1. THEATRE VIS-À-VIS VIDEO. Theatre is really a bourgeois or liberal approach to the World, and therefore something one would more associate with books and newspapers than with, say, radio and television. In fact, the latter are comparatively proletarian media of cultural dissemination, with radio standing to television pretty much as broadsheets and/or word books to photographic books and/or tabloids. The proletarian equivalent of theatre, however, would be video, a no-less Heathen medium than its bourgeois counterpart, but dependent, like the other proletarian media, on electricity, the life-blood, so to speak, of a genuinely worldly alternative.

2. CINEMA AND VIDEO. Compared to the Superheathen medium of cinema, which I have always associated with the so-called 'American Dream', the Heathen medium of video, germane to the Mother, must seem like an 'American Nightmare', the 'fall' of film from upper-class naturalism to lower-class realism, in which not fiery passion but wilful action is the prevailing element, an element no less feminine than cinema is submasculine. Should there be a Christian or, rather, post-Christian equivalent of or extrapolation from video, it can only have reference to laser disc (DVD), which is probably the end-of-the-road for film, the farthest left it can go in what is arguably a cultural parallel to the Mary Child and therefore implicit rejection of 'Christian drama', viz. nativity plays, masks, pageants, and other forms of selfless objectivity.

3. BARBARISM AND CIVILIZATION. Whereas supernature is the absolute manifestation of barbarism, nature is its relative manifestation. And whereas culture is the relative manifestation of civilization, superculture is its absolute manifestation. Civilization is the framework in which culture/superculture can be cultivated, whereas barbarism is the absence, relatively or absolutely, of such a framework, which permits nature/supernature to have her way. A barbarous society is one in which nature is untrammelled, whereas a civilized society is one in which culture is untrammelled ... primarily because it is free, through civilization, from nature's philistine opposition.

4. PREVAILING INFLUENCES. If one were to generalize as to whether the Devil, God, man, or woman was the prevailing influence on our Superheathen, Heathen, Christian, and Superchristian triads, I would generalize as follows: the Devil as the prevailing influence on the Superheathen triad ... of supernatural fundamentalism; woman as the prevailing influence on the Heathen triad ... of natural humanism; man as the prevailing influence on the Christian triad ... of cultural nonconformism; and God as the prevailing influence on the Superchristian triad ... of supercultural transcendentalism. Hence one would be contrasting the absolute barbarism of the Devil and the relative barbarism of woman, which are superfeminine and feminine respectively, with the relative civilization of man and the absolute civilization of God, which are respectively masculine and supermasculine. Just as one would be distinguishing between a devolution from the Devil to woman, and an evolution, conversely, from man to God.

5. MALE AND FEMALE COUNTRIES. Ireland is a man's country, because it is one in which culture, in the civilized framework of Catholic Christianity, viz. the Church, comes first, whereas Britain, by contrast, is a woman's country because of its bias, through Protestant Heathenism, for nature. Thus contrary to appearances, it must follow that Heathen Britain is feminine, whereas Catholic Ireland is masculine, since woman is free (to be natural) in the Heathen context, while man is free or, at any rate, relatively free (of woman) in the Christian one. Without Christianity, Irishmen would be no less the slaves of women than their British counterparts. For Christianity, being a masculine religion, liberates men from the World, whereas Heathenism keeps them enslaved to it.

6. SIGN OF THE SUPERMAN. It is nonsense to imagine that Christianity is about equalitarianism, democracy, socialism, and other such feminine ideals. Christianity is, in fact, profoundly elitist; for only the finest and worthiest men can 'take up the Cross' and, in rejecting familial norms and other aspects of nature, struggle upwards toward ever greater cultural heights, wherein is to be found their heavenly reward. Now what applies to Christianity applies even more to the Superchristianity which I identify with Social Transcendentalism, since it is the path not to the perfection of man (in the grave) but to the perfection of God ... the Holy Spirit of Heaven ... in the Eternity of a supercultural rejection of culture that requires nothing less than adherence to the Supercross of Messianic resolve. Such a Supercross, conceived by me in terms of an inverted CND sign the third or right-hand stripe of which is aligned with the masculine sign of a Saturn-oriented arrow, is the true sign of the Superman as he evolves out of and away from Christian man in due process of achieving a Social Transcendentalist salvation.