CYCLE TWENTY-NINE

1. CHURCH AND STATE. Where civilization, in the form of the Church, advances culture, barbarism, in the form of the State, protects nature. For the advancement of culture through the Church is separate from, and therefore incompatible with, the protection of nature through the State, and consequently the Church and the State have traditionally been on opposite sides of the gender fence - the former masculine, the latter feminine. The State, particularly when democratic, protects the (naturalistic) freedom of the greater number from both secular and mystical forms of tyranny, whereas the Church exists to advance the liberation of man from the World, and hence the domination of nature. Hence the State is Heathen where the Church is Christian, since concerned not with Heaven and Hell but, in due heathenistic fashion, with the (purgatorial) Overworld and the World.

2. STATE BARBARISM. Compared with the relative barbarism which accrues to the democratic State, the barbarism of the autocratic State, or Kingdom, is absolute, since it is more concerned with the protection of supernature than nature, conceiving of the former in due fundamentalist fashion, and is therefore less feminine than superfeminine. It is not the World or the (purgatorial) Overworld which is the concern of the Monarchic State ... so much as the Netherworld, and in this regard it is profoundly anti-cultural, which is to say, rooted in philistine enslavement to cosmic mysticism and other forms of supernatural determinism. There is no church opposition to the State in this primitive social organization or, rather, organism, but only temples of Superheathen enslavement, which are an integral part of the Kingdom whose barbarism they reflect.

3. CHURCH CIVILIZATION. Compared with the relative civilization which accrues to the Christian Church, the civilization of the coming Superchristian 'Church', or Social Transcendentalist Centre, will be absolute, since more concerned with the advancement of superculture in God (the Holy Spirit of Heaven) than of culture in man (Christ), conceiving of the former in due transcendentalist terms, and therefore as something less masculine than supermasculine. Hence the Social Transcendentalist Centre will be as far beyond the Christian Church as the Kingdom, or Monarchic State, was before or, rather, behind the Liberal State, an organization of God as opposed, like the Kingdom, to an organism of the Devil, and consequently the true salvation of man ... in the Superman of 'Kingdom Come'. With the Centre, the State/Church dichotomy of phenomenal tradition can be democratically overcome in the interests of a noumenal salvation which will subsume state responsibility, duly transmuted, into itself, thereby passing beyond the relativity of nature/culture to the absolutism of superculture. For the Centre will be no less beyond barbarism than the Kingdom was before/behind civilization, and in its advancement of supercultural liberation from humanism it can save mankind from the State, thereby ensuring that never again will either the natural or the supernatural pose a subversive threat to civilization. The artificial transmutation of nature, not least as it directly impinges upon human life and effects its continual survival, will be only less important to the Centre than the spiritual transmutation of culture, and therefore steps will duly have to be taken to provide alternatives to natural processes and norms which should assist in the development of superculture towards its optimum realization.