601. Likewise
the evolution of mundane subjectivity from the massed mass of vocal Rock to the
massive mass of instrumental Pop via the massive mass of vocal Pop and the
massed mass of instrumental Rock.
602. But
the devolution of hellish objectivity from the sequential time of vocal Jazz to
the repetitive time of instrumental Soul via the repetitive time of vocal Soul
and the sequential time of instrumental Jazz.
603. And
the devolution of purgatorial objectivity from the volumetric volume of vocal
Classical to the voluminous volume of instrumental Romantic via the voluminous
volume of vocal Romantic and the volumetric volume of instrumental Classical.
604. From
the molecular photon particles of alpha spatial space to the elemental photon wavicles of omega spaced space via the elemental photon
particles of omega-in-the-alpha spaced space and the molecular photon wavicles of alpha-in-the-omega spatial space.
605. From
the Clear Light of the (vocal Blues) Void to the Holy Spirit of (instrumental
Folk) Heaven via the Unholy Spirit of the (vocal Folk) Void and the Unclear
Light of (instrumental Blues) Heaven.
606. Likewise
from the molecular electron particles of alpha massed mass to the elemental
electron wavicles of omega massive mass via the
elemental electron particles of omega-in-the-alpha massive mass and the
molecular electron wavicles of alpha-in-the-omega
massed mass.
607. From
the Clear Darkness of (vocal Rock) Mass to the Holy Will of the (instrumental
Pop) World via the Unholy Will of (vocal Pop) Mass and the Unclear Darkness of
the (instrumental Rock) World.
608. But
from the elemental proton particles of alpha sequential time to the molecular
proton wavicles of omega repetitive time via the
elemental proton wavicles of omega-in-the-alpha
repetitive time and the molecular proton particles of alpha-in-the-omega
sequential time.
609. As
from the Clear Heat of (vocal Jazz) Time to the Holy Soul of (instrumental
Soul) Hell via the Unholy Soul of (vocal Soul) Time and the Unclear Heat of
(instrumental Jazz) Hell.
610. And
from the elemental neutron particles of alpha volumetric volume to the
molecular neutron wavicles of omega voluminous volume
via the elemental neutron wavicles of
omega-in-the-alpha voluminous volume and the molecular neutron particles of
alpha-in-the-omega volumetric volume.
611. From
the Clear Coldness of (vocal Classical) Volume to the Holy Intellect of
(instrumental Romantic) Purgatory via the Unholy Intellect of (vocal Romantic)
Volume and the Unclear Coldness of (instrumental Classical) Purgatory.
612. A
heavenly evolution from molecular photon particles to elemental photon wavicles, as from the forebrain to the superconscious.
613. Likewise
a mundane evolution from molecular electron particles to elemental electron wavicles, as from the left midbrain to the unconscious.
614. But a hellish devolution from elemental proton particles to
molecular proton wavicles, as from the subconscious
to the backbrain.
615. And a purgatorial devolution from elemental neutron
particles to molecular neutron wavicles, as from the
conscious to the right midbrain.
616. The devolutionary
objectivity of protons/neutrons vis-à-vis the evolutionary subjectivity of
electrons/photons.
617. The
diabolic/masculine contracts and diverges, while the feminine/divine expands
and converges.
618. The
devolutionary objectivity of time/volume vis-à-vis the evolutionary
subjectivity of mass/space.
619. Volume
contracts into time, whereas mass expands into space.
620. Volume
diverges from mass into the damnation of time, whereas mass, freed from volume,
converges towards space, wherein it is saved.
621. Saved
from massive mass for spaced space, wherein Heaven has its airy throne.
622. The
strength of time diverges from the truth of space.
623. The
goodness of volume diverges from the beauty of mass.
624. The
beauty of mass converges towards the truth of space.
625. The truth of space is the Holy Spirit of Heaven, which
transcends the Holy Will of the World, as air transcends art.
626. The beauty of art is the salvation of the World, viz. denial
of the will.
627. But the truth of air is the salvation of Heaven, viz. denial
of the spirit.
628. It is
in the truth of air that Heaven is revealed to the spirit that is consciously
at one with it and accordingly holy - the Holy Spirit of Heaven.
629. The man
of the Holy Spirit of Heaven will loathe the upper class, dislike the middle
class, like the working class, and love the classless, who are the 'children of
Heaven'.
630. Art
begins where affirmation of the will leaves off, and ends with the '
631. There
can be no art in the '
632. There
can be no true and final peace which is not that of 'Kingdom Come'.
633. He
who uses the Devil to further peace is deceiving himself and paving the way for
war, i.e. Hell on Earth.
634. Peace
that is true and lasting is not created by armies or weapons, but by the Holy
Spirit of Heaven, which transcends the World.
635. The
peace which is not of God the Holy Spirit of Heaven is false and transient.
636. The Devil may give the appearance of maintaining the peace,
but only God can deliver the essential peace of eternity.
637. Peace
through strength is a doctrine of fools and evil people, whose pact with the
Devil is the surest guarantee of war.
638. It is
not the Holy Spirit, nor even the Son, whose name is evoked by the false
pacifists of strength, but Almighty God the Father, in whose powerful name they
amass arms.
639. If
the Father may be identified with peace through strength (arms), then the Son
can be identified with peace through goodness (diplomacy).
640. Whereas
peace through strength is absolutely false, peace through goodness is
relatively false, the falsity of politics as opposed to science.
641. If
the Mother may be identified with peace through beauty, then the Holy Spirit
can be identified with peace through truth.
642. Whereas
peace through beauty is relatively genuine, peace through truth is absolutely
genuine, the genuineness of religion as opposed to art.
643. The objective man may proclaim his desire for peace, but
only the subjective man will truly uphold it.
644. Ultimately,
peace can only be advanced and secured on the basis of subjective pacifism.
645. Peace
is not advanced through war; only war advances.
646. Like the State, war can only wither in and through the
people, whose struggles against oppression are the final form of war.
647. When the People are free from tyrannous or
governmental oppression, then and only then will war wither to a point where universal
peace can reign on the basis of truth.
648. The
People cannot cease to struggle while they are yet enslaved by tyrannous and/or
governmental oppressors whose martial essence prevents the peace which springs
from truth.
649. Even
the peace which springs from beauty can be thwarted by strength- and/or
goodness-affirming 'pacifists'.
650. While
superficially appearing peaceful, the essence of all strength- and
goodness-affirming 'pacifists' is, in reality, martial - whether absolutely or,
as in the latter case, relatively.
651. Whereas
the ancient Greeks had gods, who dwelt on Olympus, the modern Americans have
'stars', who dwell in
652. Whereas
the ancient Romans had gladiators, who fought in arenas, the modern Britons
have sportsmen, who compete in stadia.
653. No
less than America is in many respects the modern equivalent of ancient Greece,
so
654. That
society which is most democratic will be least bureaucratic, while, conversely,
the more bureaucratic the society the less democratic will it be.
655. Similarly,
that society which is most autocratic will be least theocratic, while,
conversely, the more theocratic the society the less autocratic will it be.
656. Just as
autocracy is the damnation of democratic societies, so theocracy is the
salvation of bureaucratic ones.
657. Autocracy
is the Mr Hyde that lies in wait for Dr Jekyll's
democracy, a 'Steppenwolfian' transformation from man
to beast (devil).
658. The palace is the focus of autocracy, no less than the
Church the focus of theocracy.
659. Parliament
is the focus of democracy, no less than the town hall the focus of bureaucracy.
660. The monarch is the symbol of autocracy, no less than the
pope the symbol of theocracy.
661. The
prime minister/president is the symbol of democracy, no less than the mayor the
symbol of bureaucracy.
662. From the 'outer darkness' of the hardback comes the 'outer
light' of film.
663. From the 'inner darkness' of the softback
comes the 'inner light' of literature on compact disc.
664. Whereas
the hardback corresponds to the 'outer darkness' of bad barbarism, the softback, by comparison, corresponds to the 'inner
darkness' of good barbarism.
665. Whereas
bad barbarism is republican and anti-Christian, good barbarism is socialist and
anti-heathen.
666. The hardback is effectively anterior to film, while the softback is effectively posterior to it.
667. That
which is effectively anterior to film can be (and often is) damned to it.
668. That
which is effectively posterior to film can be saved to compact disc.
669. The
damnation of the bad barbarism of hardback literature to the bad civilization
of film is a sort of insurrection.
670. The
salvation of the good barbarism of softback
literature to the good civilization of CD-Rom literature is a sort of
resurrection.
671. When softbacks become 'packaged' with CD-Rom options, the
resurrection of literature from the death of 'inner-darkness' barbarism to the
eternal life of 'inner-light' civilization will be manifest.
672. Eventually
the compact disc will completely supersede the softback,
as literary Heaven 'eclipses' the World.
673. The unconscious stands to the conscious as the core of the
earth to the moon, or as the (Western) Devil to the (Western) God.
674. We speak of the subconscious, the conscious, and the superconscious as though they were entirely different
minds, but, in reality, they are three degrees of consciousness.
675. The
only 'mind' that stands against consciousness, whether in its subconscious,
conscious, or superconscious manifestations, is the
unconscious.
676. It is
the unconscious that dreams and consciousness which apperceives the dream.
677. Sleep
puts the conscious mind to sleep and awakens the unconscious, which is akin to
the core of the earth.
678. Consciousness becomes subconscious through
sleep, and thus the passive witness of dream activity by the unconscious.
679. Consciousness,
which is the self, is disposed, as subconscious, to witness the dreaming
not-self of the unconscious.
680. There
is a spectrum of self which stretches from the subconscious to the superconscious via the conscious.
681. There is also, it could be said, a spectrum of not-self,
which stretches from the unconscious in the backbrain
to the unconscious in the forebrain via the unconscious in both the left and
right midbrains.
682. As
consciousness ascends from the subconscious to the superconscious
it becomes stronger.
683. As
the unconscious descends from the backbrain to the
forebrain via the left and right midbrains it becomes weaker.
684. The fulcrum of consciousness is the conscious mind, situated
in the right midbrain.
685. The fulcrum of unconsciousness is the collective
unconscious, situated in the left midbrain.
686. The
conscious mind and the collective unconscious constitute a polarity analogous
to that between the moon and the core of the earth.
687. Television
is a realistic mode of artificial unconsciousness which parallels the rather
more naturalistic unconscious of dreams.
688. As a material entity, television corresponds, in its screen
and casing, to the core and crust of the earth.
689. Similarly,
computers correspond, in their screen and casing, to the core and crust of the
moon.
690. For computers are materialistic modes of unconsciousness
which parallel the rather more idealistic unconscious of, for example, LSD
trips.
691. If
the naturalistic unconscious of dreams exists in the backbrain,
then the realistic unconscious of television corresponds to the left midbrain.
692. If
the materialistic unconscious of computers corresponds to the right midbrain,
then the idealistic unconscious of LSD trips exists in the forebrain.
693. Both
dreams and LSD trips, corresponding to naturalistic and idealistic modes of
unconscious behaviour, are noumenal.
694. Both
televisions and computers, corresponding to realistic and materialistic modes
of unconscious behaviour, are phenomenal.
695. Our
relationship to television is analogous to that of our relationship to dreams.
696. Our
relationship to computers is analogous to that of our relationship to LSD
trips.
697. If
consciousness is only subconscious in its relation to dreams, then we may
contend that only in its relation to LSD trips does it become superconscious.
698. One
should distinguish, therefore, between the genuine superconsciousness
of consciousness vis-à-vis LSD trips and the quasi-superconsciousness
of consciousness which has simply suspended thought in the interests of a
quasi-meditative purism.
699. Furthermore,
one could distinguish this quasi-superconscious
consciousness from what may be called pseudo-superconsciousness,
as when one contemplates holograms in a sort of 'external trip'.
700. If
consciousness is most itself when aware of external phenomena and given to
thought, then it could be argued that consciousness which is absorbed in
fantasies, day-dreams, and the like is
quasi-subconscious.
701. Such
quasi-subconscious consciousness would contrast with the genuine subconsciousness of consciousness vis-à-vis dreams.
702. Analogous
to the pseudo-superconsciousness of external
supernatural visionary experience through holograms, we could speak of
consciousness of apparitions, or external subnatural
visionary experience, as constituting a pseudo-subconsciousness.
703. Consciousness
of thoughts, or words, on computer screens is antithetical to consciousness of
deeds, or actions, on television, and corresponds to consciousness vis-à-vis
thoughts and fantasies respectively.
704. Beyond the superconscious
consciousness of, say, LSD trips stands the supra-conscious consciousness of
the universal self, or air as the focus of meditative attention.
705. Such
a supra-consciousness is One with the Holy Spirit of
Heaven, and contrasts, absolutely, with what may be called the
supra-unconsciousness of the Clear Light of the Void.
706. Hence
where alpha God is supra-unconscious, omega God is supra-conscious: all the
difference between the creative central star of the Galaxy and the coming
transcendentalism of the ultimate Creation.
707. By
contrast to the central star of the Galaxy, the sun corresponds to noumenal unconsciousness, the 'Satanic' personal
unconscious of absolute Hell.
708. By
comparison with the sun, the core of the earth corresponds to phenomenal unconsciousness, the collective unconscious of relative
Hell.
709. If television corresponds to the collective unconscious of
relative, or worldly, Hell, then cinema corresponds to the personal unconscious
of absolute, or cosmic, Hell.
710. Cinema
precedes television as the 'Fall of Satan' precedes
the 'Fall of Man'.
711. Contrasted
to cinema, we shall find the 'Jehovah-like' medium of film slides, which
correspond, in their static translucency, to the supra-unconsciousness of
primal Heaven.
712. Video is a sort of omega pole to cinema, a more
centripetal formatting (through cassettes) of the personal unconscious.
713. Radio is a sort of omega pole to television, a
more centripetal formatting (through concepts) of the collective unconscious.
714. Compact
disc is a sort of omega pole to personal computers, a more centripetal
formatting (through laser discs) of the personal conscious.
715. Virtual Reality is a sort of omega pole to film
slides, a more centripetal formatting (through interiorized space) of universal
consciousness.
716. Yet
all such materialistic and technological parallels to the
unconscious/conscious, being phenomenal, are a far cry from the literal, or noumenal, extremes of the unconscious and conscious which
constitute the beginnings and endings of life, the universe, evolution, etc.
717. The
unconscious is devolutionary, whereas the conscious is evolutionary.
718. The
unconscious devolves from the supra-unconscious, whereas the conscious evolves
towards the supra-conscious.
719. Thus
between the Clear Light of the Void and the Holy Spirit of Heaven are to be
found various degrees and kinds of unconscious devolution and conscious
evolution.
720. That which is unconscious is under the star - whether
absolutely or relatively, personally or collectively.
721. That which is conscious is on the side of the cross -
whether relatively or absolutely, personally or universally.
722. That
which is unconscious corresponds to the not-self, whether absolutely or
relatively, noumenally or phenomenally.
723. That which is conscious corresponds to the self - whether
relatively or absolutely, phenomenally or noumenally.
724. As in
the beginning so in the end - the devolution (fall) from the supra-unconscious to
the unconscious (both personal and collective) will be superseded by the
evolution (resurrection) of the conscious (via the superconscious)
to the supra-conscious.
725. Just
as the unconscious can be spoken of as the soul, so the conscious can be regarded
as the spirit.
726. Hence
the unconscious stands to the conscious as soul to spirit.
727. The
supra-unconscious is a sort of oversoul (Emerson),
which contrasts with the overspirit, so to speak, of
the supra-conscious.
728. The essence of the oversoul, or
supra-unconscious, is conscience, which is the 'Thou shalt
not' of negative spirit, or light.
729. The essence of the overspirit, or
supra-conscious, is joy, which is the 'Thou art that' of positive spirit, or
air.
730. Just
as one must deny the soul in order to achieve the spirit, so must the spirit be
denied, through the universal self (of air), in order to achieve salvation in
and by the overspirit, viz. the Holy Spirit of
Heaven.
731. The
rejection of conscience by the personal unconscious is the curse of the Devil.
732. The personal unconscious is without conscience and is thus
purely, or noumenally, evil.
733. The collective unconscious is impurely, or phenomenally,
evil, being a thing of the World.
734. The conscious is impurely, or phenomenally, good, being a
thing of the Overworld.
735. The superconscious is purely, or noumenally, good, being of the Beyond.
736. Generally,
women are biased towards the unconscious and men, by contrast, towards the
conscious.
737. Hence
whereas women are impurely evil, men are impurely good - a distinction between
the flesh and the mind.
738. Women
are not, with their unconscious dispositions, morally suited to spiritual
leadership.
739. Women do not generally relate to spiritual
transcendence of the World, but are of the World in their fleshy dispositions.
740. A
creature of the World cannot symbolize rejection of the World through Christ
(consciousness) and, ultimately, its transcendence in and by the Holy Spirit of
Heaven.
741. Women
keep the World going, while men endeavour, if moral, to reject it as a
precondition of transcendence.
742. Ultimately,
men will have to reject the World totally, if they seriously intend to attain
to the heavenly Beyond.
743. Such
a total rejection may well entail completely artificial methods of propagation
coupled to selective genetics of a kind intended to favour spirit at the
expense of soul.
744. In music, wind pitch corresponds to the supra-unconscious
and vocal pitch to the supra-conscious.
745. Likewise
rhythm corresponds to the personal unconscious and harmony to the collective
unconscious.
746. By
contrast, melody corresponds to the conscious and instrumental pitch to the superconscious.
747. Whereas
drums are the instruments, par
excellence, of the personal unconscious, the collective unconscious is best
served by guitars and other such stringed instruments.
748. Whereas
keyboard instruments like the piano are the principal means through which the
conscious seeks musical expression, the superconscious
calls for synthesizers, which are the most pitch-orientated of keyboard
instruments.
749. Yet
if the superconscious seeks musical expression
through synthesizers, then it seems not improbable that xylophones,
vibraphones, and other percussive keyboards are the principal means through
which the subconscious seeks musical expression.
750. For the subconscious is the lowest manifestation of the
self, and stands at the farthest psychic remove from the superconscious.
751. Thus from
xylophones to synthesizers via pianos - a range of keyboard instruments
paralleling the ascension of the self from subconscious to superconscious
via conscious manifestations.
752. Beyond the superconscious,
however, is the supra-conscious pitch of pipes, which stand in an antithetical
relationship to wind.
753. Self
does not necessarily lead to supra-self, or divinity, although it is of course
necessary to have a self before its denial becomes possible.
754. Thus
it is necessary, in religious terms, to affirm Christ before the Holy Spirit of
Heaven becomes possible.
755. Traditionally,
Christ has been affirmed in subconscious (Catholic) and conscious (Protestant)
terms, though not, as yet, in terms of the superconscious
(Social Theocratic), such as portend a Second Coming.
756. It is
from the superconscious affirmation of the Second
Coming that the supra-conscious affirmation of the Holy Spirit of Heaven will
duly come to pass, as the highest manifestation of the self embraces, through
self-denial, the universal self, and is accordingly saved.
757. Salvation
of the self from the unconscious paves the way for universal self, and hence
the Holy Spirit of Heaven.
758. The highest unconscious from which the highest self, of the superconscious, can be saved ... is the forebrain
unconscious of hallucinogenic contemplation, viz. LSD trips.
759. Self
does not exist in a vacuum or void, like the supra-unconscious, but in relation
to unconsciousness of one degree/kind or another.
760. Before the self can be saved from the unconscious, it must
achieve a superconscious pitch vis-à-vis the
synthetic unconscious of forebrain visionary experience.
761. Men
are generally more selfish, because conscious, than women, whose selflessness
derives from a bias towards the unconscious.
762. The collective unconscious, corresponding to the feminine,
is rather more sensational than emotional, whereas the personal unconscious is
primarily emotional, in accordance with its soulful essence.
763. The supra-unconscious
is spiritually rather than soulfully emotional, which is to say, given to
conscience-based feelings which stand to the cruder emotions of the personal
unconscious as light to fire.
764. The personal conscious, corresponding to the masculine, is
rather more intellectual than spiritual, whereas the superconscious
is primarily spiritual, in accordance with its visionary essence.
765. The
supra-conscious is transcendentally rather than visionarily
spiritual, which is to say, given to breath-based feelings which stand to the
cruder spirituality of the superconscious (the
collective conscious) as air to ice.
766. In air, the spirit is saved from its icy self for the joyful
purity of the heavenly Beyond.
767. A
true and ultimate 'transvaluation' or 'rebirth' is
not possible without the utmost attenuation of the unconscious through
evolutionary progress.
768. Such
attenuation, centred in the forebrain, is not only beyond the backbrain but beyond the left and right midbrains as well.
769. The supra-conscious
is as much beyond good and evil, in regard to the conscious/unconscious
dichotomy, as the supra-unconscious is behind it.
770. The
good and evil dichotomy of the personal conscious/collective unconscious is
necessarily phenomenal, and contrasts with the absolutism of both anterior and
posterior noumenal extremes.
771. If
the supra-unconscious is behind good and evil, then it is neither good nor evil
but negatively divine.
772. If
the supra-conscious is beyond good and evil, then it is neither good nor evil
but positively divine.
773. The
negative divinity of conscience contrasts with the positive divinity of truth.
774. If
good and evil are relative in the phenomenal modes of the personal conscious
and collective unconscious, then it could be argued that only in the noumenal modes of the personal unconscious and collective
conscious (superconscious) are they absolute.
775. Such
an absolute dichotomy contrasts with the relative dichotomy of phenomenal good
and evil, as the Devil (Satan) and God (the Second Coming) with Man (the Son)
and Woman (the Mother).
776. Absolute
good and evil may flank relative (phenomenal) good and evil, but do not
transcend it for the realms of divinity, which, as we have seen, are either
behind or beyond good and evil.
777. He
who is beyond good and evil, in both its relative and absolute manifestations,
is no longer Man but God ... the Holy Spirit of Heaven.
778. He
who is behind good and evil, in both its absolute and relative manifestations, is
not yet Man but God ... the Clear Light of the Void.
779. The Clear Light of the Void is no less incapable of joy,
than the Holy Spirit of Heaven would be incapable of woe.
780. That which is behind good and evil is deaf to truth, whereas
that which is beyond good and evil is blind to illusion.
781. Conscience
calls forth the illusion of light (law), whereas salvation brings forth the
truth of air (Heaven).
782. The
lawyer and the saint stand at opposite poles of the divine spectrum, like the
Clear Light of the Void and the Holy Spirit of Heaven - the one behind good and
evil, the other beyond it.
783. That
man who is beyond good and evil is yet closer to good (the collective
conscious) than to evil (the collective unconscious).
784. That
man who is behind good and evil is yet closer to evil (the personal
unconscious) than to good (the personal conscious).
785. Musically
speaking, the solo wind-instrumentalist, who is behind good and evil, is akin
to the lawyer in his identification with the supra-unconscious.
786. Conversely,
the piper, who is beyond good and evil, is akin to the saint in his
identification with the supra-conscious.
787. In
between and lower than the two divine extremes of solo wind-instrumentalists
and solo pipers come the various grades of singers/instrumentalists and
instrumentalists/synthesists.
788. The man who is musically saved, and therefore given to
piping, can have no truck with wind instruments, and hence wind compositions.
789. The man who oscillates between wind and pipes is not saved
but torn, in dynamically amoral fashion, between alpha and omega.
790. Guitar/violin
instrumentality is a sort of barbarous darkness in between the 'outer light' of
wind and the 'inner spirit' of pipes - the former appertaining to bad civilization,
and the latter to good civilization.
791. Alternatively
one could speak of guitar/violin instrumentality as a sort of barbarous
darkness (particle/wavicle respectively) in between
the 'outer light/heat' of percussion and the 'inner heat/light' of synthesizer
instrumentality - the former appertaining to a more devolved phase of bad
civilization, and the latter to good civilization in its inceptive phase.
792. The twentieth century was, by and large, an age of 'liberal'
compromise between a variety of different instrumental and vocal combinations,
which conform to its amoral permissiveness.
793. Not
until the Last Judgement will such permissiveness be superseded by a moral
directive relating to the (Social Theocratic) '
794. Whereas
the supra-unconscious, rooted in the negative spirit of what is behind good
and evil (but closer to evil), takes a 'Thou-shalt-not'
line in moral judgements, the supra-conscious, centred in the positive spirit
of what is beyond good and evil (but closer to good), takes a
'Thou-shall' line in regard to morally desirable objectives.
795. Hence
whereas the Mosaic Law focuses its negative spirit on what is not morally desirable, the judgements of the Second
Coming will focus, through positive spirit, on what is morally desirable,
thereby leading from the front rather than prohibiting from the rear.
796. It is
the positive spirit of the Second Coming which says: 'You shall do this' if you
are to be saved.
797. The Mosaic transmutation of the negative spirit of Jehovah,
the Judaic Clear Light of the Void, could only say: 'You shall not do this' if
you are to avoid being damned or, rather, cursed.
798. There
is no salvation in Jehovah or other variations on the Clear Light of the Void,
for the simple reason that salvation is from the World to the Beyond, not from
the World to the Behind.
799. The
Behind, rooted in lawful conscience, is simply a cosmic backdrop to a
succession of falls which, culminating in the World, open out to the
possibility, following a Christian rebirth, of the Beyond, the heavenly
redemption of sin.
800. The Beyond offers man the benefits of joy in relation to the
lightness of air, whereas the Behind could offer nothing more than woe in
relation to the speed of light.