CYCLE THIRTY-THREE

1. HEXAGONAL AND PENTAGONAL STARS. Both the Superheathen context of Satan and the Heathen context of the Father are symbolized by stars. For the star is symbolic of a gender clash between opposing kinds of objectivity, the objective selfishness of Satan vis-à-vis the objective selflessness of the Clear Light in the Superheathen context, but the objective selflessness of the Father vis-à-vis the objective selfishness of the Mother in the Heathen context, the former noumenal and the latter phenomenal. In fact, such a noumenal/phenomenal distinction as exists between these two forms of clashing genders requires a contrary mode of symbolization, and I hold to the belief that whereas the noumenal gender clash is presided over by a hexagonal star, the phenomenal gender clash, by contrast, finds itself presided over by a pentagonal star, thus enabling us to distinguish between the Superheathen and the Heathen modes of heterosexual intercourse. Certainly, the so-called 'Star of David', which is a hexagram composed from two interlocking triangles, perfectly symbolizes the noumenal conflict between objective selfishness and objective selflessness in what is effectively a kind of Judaic/Hindu overlap, and I hold that the pentagonal star of the Father is just as illustrative of a Presbyterian/Anglican overlap in which the objective selflessness of the Father is locked in phenomenal conflict with the objective selfishness of the Mother.

2. PYRAMIDAL AND INVERTED TRIANGLES. Besides the aforementioned stars, there are two other symbolic norms for the Superheathen and Heathen triads, neither of which are symbolic of clashing genders, and these are the pyramidal triangle, or orthodox triangle having one point at the apex and two points at the base, and the inversion of such a triangle, so that we have two points at the apex and one point at the base in what is a sort of anti-pyramidal form. In the Superheathen triad, the pyramidal triangle precedes the 'Star of David' as the primary form of that triad, and is effectively its superfeminine precondition, whereas the inverted triangle supersedes the 'Star of David' as ... Mohammedanism supersedes Judaism. In the Heathen triad, by contrast, the objective selflessness of the Father, and hence of the pentagram, precedes the objective selfishness of the Mother, since objective selflessness is primary, and therefore it follows that the pyramidal triangle is a secondary form which leads, in due course, to the inverted triangle ... of the Son ... in what is effectively a Puritan extrapolation from an Anglican precondition. Yet the Father is less Presbyterian, in this context, than Roman Catholic, using that term with due regard to the Roman authoritarianism which accrues to its more conservative traditions and was responsible, in no small measure, for the Anglican revolt against the Father which culminated in the Mother, and thus, so I contend, in a pyramidal triangle the phenomenal counterpart to that of Superheathen primacy. Only subsequent to the Reformation does the pentagram gradually come to symbolize a Presbyterian position in which the Father takes precedence, in due liberal fundamentalist fashion, over Christ. But such a Father is a far cry from the original Roman Catholic Father, since more disposed to familial intercourse with the Mother than ever His Catholic predecessor - associated with the Virgin Mary - would have been, and for the simple reason that He is a Protestant, and therefore One for Whom the World is less virginal (and Christian) than maternal (and Heathen), requiring the fecundating influence of His heathenistic love, which owes more, in the paradoxical logic of this heresy, to Satan than ever it does to the rather more quasi-idealistic Jehovah.