CYCLE THIRTY-NINE

1. A CERTAIN VOLUME. Since Time leads to Mass and Volume to Space, Christianity has always stood apart from the Heathenism of Time and Mass in the interests of Volume and Space. The love (emotion) that leads romantically to the flesh is not of Christianity but of its Heathen antithesis, and one could argue that whereas Time is Superheathen, Mass is Heathen, as though a factor of woman rather than of the Devil. Yet Volume is not of God but of man, and thus we have to distinguish between the Christianity of Volume and the Superchristianity of Space, conceiving of the one intellectually and the other spiritually, so that we can pass from the understanding of man, Christian man, to the peace of God ... the Holy Spirit of Heaven, as Space surpasses Volume. Yet just as there is a Volume which is of the intellect per se, a writerly Volume, so to speak, of the Son (Puritanism), so there is a Volume which is deferential to Time and another Volume which is deferential to Mass, the one rooted in reading and the other in speaking, and neither of these lead to the Holy Spirit, much less to the Holy Spirit of Heaven, but are 'bovaryizations' of Volume, and thus of the intellect, relative to the Father (Presbyterianism) and to the Mother (Anglicanism). Only the Volume which is deferential to Space, the quasi-spiritual Volume of prayerful contemplation and/or thoughtful meditation, leads to the Holy Spirit (Catholicism), and from there to the 'peace that passeth (surpasses) all understanding' is but a leap of faith, a leap from the forebrain to the lungs as we embrace spirit per se, passing beyond Christianity to the Superchristian transcendentalism of the Holy Spirit of Heaven in the most perfect Space - the spaced Space of a being supreme.

2. DAMNATION VERSES SALVATION. That man who is dominated by the Superheathen Time of protons in the backbrain/heart, or by the Heathen Mass of electrons in the right midbrain/flesh ... will never know the joyful peace that comes from passing beyond the Christian Volume of neutrons in the left midbrain/brain to the Superchristian Space of photons in the forebrain/lungs. Cut off from the spirit by his emotions, he will remain forever the slave of the flesh, whose Mass will dance to his Time and bewitch him with its beauty, draining his strength unto death. But that man who scorns Time and its weakness for Mass ... will seek in Volume the knowledge that leads to truth, and in the Space of such truth is to be found the key to Eternal Life. He will not confound beauty with truth, for beauty is Heathen and truth, beyond knowledge, Superchristian. Beauty brings damnation to strength, the damnation of mortal death, whereas truth brings salvation to knowledge, the salvation of Eternal Life. As well confound strength with knowledge, the Superheathen with the Christian, as confound, in Keatsian vein, beauty with truth!