The Natural
and Cultural Alternatives of Sensuality and Sensibility. Just as
the distinction between the noumenal and the
phenomenal is one of space/time vis-à-vis volume/mass, and therefore of the
ethereal vis-à-vis the corporeal, whether in sensuality or in sensibility, so
we have made distinctions between metachemistry and antimetaphysics at the northwest point of the intercardinal axial compass, between metaphysics and antimetachemistry at its northeast point, between chemistry
and antiphysics at its southwest point and between
physics and antichemistry at its southeast point,
this overall framework further divided into two distinct axes,
church-hegemonic/state-subordinate from southwest to northeast, and
state-hegemonic/church-subordinate from northwest to southeast. Another
way of defining these noumenal and phenomenal
distinctions is to differentiate the noumenal from
the phenomenal on the basis of 'super' from 'non-super' (standard), with the
sensual differentiated from the sensible on a heathen/Christian-like basis
which is commensurate with a distinction between nature and culture, 'once
born' and 'reborn' criteria. Hence at the sensual northwest point of the intercardinal axial compass we shall find that metachemistry is both superheathen
and supernatural in its female-based noumenally
objective hegemony (unequivocal), whereas antimetaphysics,
its subordinate antimale counterpart, is effectively
anti-superchristian and anti-supercultural
in its noumenal anti-subjectivity. Down from noumenal sensuality, the sensuality of chemistry at the
southwest point of the said compass will be both heathen and natural in its
female-based phenomenally objective hegemony (equivocal), whereas antiphysics, its subordinate antimale
counterpart, will be anti-Christian and anti-cultural in its phenomenal
anti-subjectivity. Across the axial divide to the sensibility of the
southeast point of our intercardinal axial compass,
it soon becomes evident that physics will be both Christian and cultural in its
phenomenally subjective male-centred hegemony (equivocal), whereas antichemistry, its subordinate antifemale
counterpart, will be anti-heathen and anti-natural in its phenomenal
anti-objectivity. Finally, the sensibility of metaphysics at the
northeast point of the intercardinal axial compass
will be both superchristian and supercultural
in its male-centred noumenally subjective hegemony
(unequivocal), whereas antimetachemistry, its
subordinate antifemale counterpart, will be anti-superheathen and anti-supernatural in its noumenal anti-objectivity. Hence a noumenal antithesis, across the axial divide, between metachemistry and metaphysics, supernatural superheathenism and supercultural
superchristianity, with their subordinate
counterparts antimetaphysics and antimetachemistry
constitutive of an antithesis between anti-supercultural
anti-superchristianity and anti-supernatural anti-superheathenism. Hence, too, a phenomenal antithesis,
across the axial divide, between chemistry and physics, natural heathenism and
cultural Christianity, with their subordinate counterparts antiphysics
and antichemistry constitutive of an antithesis
between anti-cultural anti-Christianity and anti-natural anti-heathenism.
Of course, the existence, at least traditionally, of inter-class polarity
between the noumenal and phenomenal manifestations of
either axis is enough to ensure that neither the heathen or anti-Christian on
the one hand nor the Christian or anti-heathen on the other hand have it
entirely their own way, since the anti-Christian antiphysical
can be saved, as we have seen, to superchristian
metaphysics and, correlatively, the heathen chemical counter-damned to anti-superheathen antimetachemistry.
Likewise, if conversely, the superheathen metachemical can be damned, in the event of the other axis
getting its act thoroughly together, to anti-heathen antichemistry
and, correlatively, the anti-superchristian antimetaphysical counter-saved to Christian physics.
But that is to project into a potentially post-axial future, and does not take
into account the influence of contemporary secularity on each axis, not least
the traditionally church-hegemonic/state-subordinate one, which is in want of
the possibility of substantive salvation and counter-damnation in view of the
obsolescence of Catholic tradition vis-à-vis the burgeoning plethora of
exemplifications of somatic licence of a synthetically artificial nature which
seduce the chemical and antiphysical from their axial
traditions into quasi-state-hegemonic/quasi-church-subordinate deference to the
prevailing ethos. Yet somatic freedom and its corollary of psychic
binding are only germane to the female-dominated sensual points of the intercardinal axial compass, namely metachemistry
over antimetaphysics at the northwest and chemistry
over antiphysics at the southwest, and will always be
in opposition to that which strives to establish a cultural and christianly alternative to heathenistic
naturalism, be it 'super' in the noumenal 'above' or
'non-super' (standard) in the phenomenal 'below'. The male-led struggle
for psychic freedom and its corollary of somatic binding can not now be
Christian but only superchristian, since it is only
from the vantage-point of an unequivocal male hegemony (over antimetachemistry) in sensibility that meaningful
deliverance of the antiphysical and chemical from
their lowly positions at the southwest point of the intercardinal
axial compass can ultimately be effected, and for that to transpire nothing
short of a democratically-mandated Social Theocratic revolution in certain
countries, including Eire, will suffice, since the restoration of the people to
church-hegemonic/state-subordinate axial criteria cannot be established on
anything short of a basis capable of levelling with and eventually countering
everything that now rains down upon them, in contemporary synthetically
artificial terms, from the state-hegemonic/church-subordinate vantage-point of
the northwest point of the said compass. If their paradoxical predicament
of quasi-state-hegemonic/quasi-church-subordinate deference is to be countered
it will take the paradoxical utilization of the democratic process to do so,
and that will spell the end not only of heathenism in either of its principal
class manifestations, but of everything that falls short of the superchristian requirement for the hegemonic establishment,
on a Social Theocratic basis, of superculture and,
subordinately to this, of an anti-superheathenism
which will be the anti-supernatural corollary, in antidevilish
antimetachemistry, of the triumph of metaphysics and,
thus, of God.