Falls and Counter-Rises vis-à-vis Rises and Counter-Falls. I was writing, not so long ago, about the lie of the ‘fall of man’. But there is another way of looking at the problem, and that is in respect of the axial antitheses or poles, rather, at either end of the two intercardinal axes. Just as a gender cannot be hegemonic at the northwest, southwest, southeast, or northeast point of these intercardinal axes without the opposite gender being upended and effectively put at cross-purposes with itself – antimetaphysics under metachemistry, antiphysics under chemistry, antichemistry under physics, and antimetachemistry under metaphysics – so the poles of a given axis cannot exist in relation to each other except on a pseudo vis-à-vis genuine basis. Which is to say that if the northwest and northeast poles are pseudo, the southeast and southwest poles will be genuine, or vice versa. In a worldly epoch, commensurate with Western and Christian criteria, the existence of each axis is premised upon a pseudo position above and a genuine position below, like pseudo-metachemistry vis-à-vis genuine antichemistry and pseudo-antimetaphysics vis-à-vis genuine physics on what has been called the state-hegemonic/church-subordinate axis, together with pseudo-metaphysics vis-à-vis genuine antiphysics and pseudo-antimetachemistry vis-à-vis genuine chemistry on what we have termed the church-hegemonic/state-subordinate axis. Hence one could speak of the genuine positions, relative to the southeast and southwest points of the intercardinal axial compass, as constituting the ‘fallen’ positions … in the sense that they represent the worldly fulcrum of things in an epoch when the noumenal positions of the ‘above’ can only be pseudo, whether as pseudo-autocratic and pseudo-antitheocratic vis-à-vis genuine antibureaucratic and genuine democratic, or, across the axial divide, as pseudo-theocratic and pseudo-antiautocratic vis-à-vis genuine bureaucratic and genuine antidemocratic. Hence the ‘fall of man’ is not to be interpreted in the simplistic Christian sense of a fall from God. On the contrary, it is significant of the fulcrum of things being phenomenal, or worldly, and therefore as constitutive of the mean, whether in relation to the fall of antiwoman from the pseudo-Devil on the basis of antichemistry from pseudo-metachemistry or to the fall or, more correctly, antirise of man from pseudo-Antigod on the basis of physics from pseudo-antimetaphysics, the former position constitutive of a damnation from hegemonic pseudo-metachemistry to underplane antichemistry, free soma to bound soma, and the latter position constitutive of a counter-salvation from underplane pseudo-antimetaphysics to hegemonic physics, bound psyche to free psyche, as we descend or counter-ascend, according to gender, from the northwest to the southeast point of the state-hegemonic/church-subordinate axis. Likewise, where church-hegemonic/state-subordinate axial criteria are concerned, one must differentiate between the fall of antiman from pseudo-God on the basis of antiphysics from pseudo-metaphysics and the fall or, more correctly, antirise of woman from the pseudo-Antidevil on the basis of chemistry from pseudo-antimetachemistry, the former position constitutive of a damnation from hegemonic pseudo-metaphysics to underplane antiphysics, free psyche to bound psyche, and the latter position constitutive of a counter-salvation from underplane pseudo-antimetachemistry to hegemonic chemistry, bound soma to free soma, as we descend or counter-ascend, according to gender, from the northeast to the southwest point of the axis in question. Consequently, it is not simply a matter of falling from a hegemonic position above to an underplane position below, but also, for the opposite gender, of rising or, rather, counter-rising from an underplane position above to a hegemonic position below. There is no simple ‘fall of man’. Antiwoman falls from the pseudo-Devil no less than man counter-rises from Antigod on the state-hegemonic/church-subordinate axis, whereas antiman falls from pseudo-God no less than woman counter-rises from the pseudo-Antidevil on the church-hegemonic/state-subordinate axis. Neither of them, however, are relevant to the post-worldly, and effectively global, present. What we find, on the contrary, is a polarity, as in America, between a pseudo ‘below’ and a genuine ‘above’, pseudo-antichemistry and metachemistry, pseudo-physics and antimetaphysics, whereby the conditions of rising or counter-falling are significantly more relevant than conditions of falling and counter-rising. And the same should apply, in due course, to the development of distinctions, on the church-hegemonic/state-subordinate axis, between pseudo-antiphysics and metaphysics, pseudo-chemistry and antimetachemistry, as pseudo-antiman is saved to God, rising from pseudo-antiphysics to metaphysics, and pseudo-woman is counter-damned to the Antidevil, counter-falling from pseudo-chemistry, which is equivocally hegemonic over pseudo-antiphysics, to antimetachemistry, which will be unequivocally subordinate to metaphysics at the northeast point of the axis in question. For in a post-worldly, or global, age it is the noumenal positions which ‘call the shots’ at the expense of the phenomenal positions below, and what is already the case in terms of state-hegemonic/church-subordinate axial criteria with respect, for example, to contemporary America (with its executive presidential C-in-C) must eventually become true of its axial antithesis, wherever that may be found and, more importantly, engineered, thereby bringing more efficacious procedures of salvation and counter-damnation, according to gender, to bear on the southwest point of the church-hegemonic/state-subordinate axis (duly returned to self-respecting order from out the quasi-state-hegemonic other-deferring chaos of the present) in order that those who now pertain to it may be transmuted upwards towards the northeast point and be delivered from both their pseudo-worldly failings and those, across the axial divide, who avail of those failings to prey upon them in their own not-self, or somatic, female-dominated interest. Instead of those in the ‘above’ being the priestly and/or monkish pseudo-exceptions to the genuine rule, the ‘above’ itself will become, at the said northeast point of the axis in question, the religiously-sovereign rule against which anything remaining in the pseudo-worldly ‘below’ will be very much the pseudo-exception, destined to remain ‘beneath the pale’ of heavenly and antihellish transmutations.