DAUGHTER-MOTHER-FATHER-SON

1. When one takes each of the above familial categories Element by Element, so that a further generalization, even more generalized, ensues with reference to the most characteristic or apposite designation for each case, one arrives at certain findings which are anything but slaves to convention!

2. For example, in the distinction between the Daughter and the Mother it transpires that the per se manifestation of the former accrues, in sensuality, to the fiery element of metachemistry, while the per se manifestation of the latter accrues, in sensibility, to the watery element of chemistry, so that one is alluding to the eyes and the womb, respectively, as opposed to the heart and the tongue.

3. In other words, the Element in which the Daughter is primary is that of metachemistry, with its fiery nature (unnatural), whereas the watery nature (supernatural) of chemistry furnishes us with only a secondary order of the Daughter vis-à-vis a primary Mother.

4. Conversely, the Element in which the Mother is primary is that of chemistry, with its watery nature (supernatural), whereas the fiery nature (unnatural) of metachemistry furnishes us with only a secondary Mother vis-à-vis a primary Daughter.

5. Thus far from the Daughter and the Mother being equal in both metachemistry and chemistry, fire and water, the Daughter is primary in the one and the Mother primary in the other, because eyes more typify the Daughter than the tongue, while the womb more typifies the Mother than the heart, even though both factors or organs, of course, still apply.

6. So in the distinction between relative and absolute orders of the Daughter and the Mother, the Daughter more typifies absolutism, i.e. metachemistry, and the Mother relativity, i.e. chemistry, with the former symbolizing a hegemonic will and the latter a hegemonic spirit.

7. When we take the male distinction between the Father and the Son, we shall find that there is likewise a case for a primary and a secondary manifestation of each, since neither is of equal status in relation to the same Element.

8. In the case of the physical element of vegetation, it transpires that the Father is primary and the Son secondary, because the per se manifestation of the former can only exist in relation to physics, specifically with regard to the penis, whereas the per se manifestation of the latter will only be found in relation to metaphysics, with specific regard to the lungs.

9. Thus it is not the First Coming, so to speak, Who is the principal manifestation (per se) of the Son, but the Second Coming, Whose coming would or should lead to the establishment of 'Kingdom Come' as a framework, principally religious, in which the lungs were given their metaphysical due.

10. In the subjective distinction between the Father and the Son, the former is more genuinely penis than ears, which is to say, is primary in relation to the one and secondary in relation to the other, whereas the latter is more genuinely lungs than brain, which is to say, is primary in relation to the one but secondary in relation to the other.

11. Hence sin is always primarily to be associated with the penis (flesh) and only secondarily with the ears, since the Father finds his primary manifestation in physics and is only secondary (to the Son) in metaphysics.

12. Conversely, grace is always primarily to be associated with the lungs (transcendental meditation) and only secondarily with the brain (prayer), since the Son finds his primary manifestation in metaphysics (with the Second Coming) and is only secondary (to the Father) in physics, the elemental context of the First Coming, or Christ.

13. Indeed, it transpires that just as the Daughter symbolizes will (which is never so paramount as in metachemistry) and the Mother symbolizes spirit (which is never so paramount as in chemistry), so the Father symbolizes ego (which is never so paramount as, carnally, in the knowledgeable context of physics), and the Son symbolizes soul (which is never so paramount as in metaphysics).

14. Hence far from the Father symbolizing will and the Son ego in this more generalized framework of elemental differentiation, it transpires that the ego will only be symbolized by the Father, primarily in relation to physics (the penis) and secondarily in relation to metaphysics (the ears), whereas the soul will only be symbolized by the Son, secondarily in relation to physics (the brain) and primarily in relation to metaphysics (the lungs).

15. Now it is because the Father - and hence ego - is secondary and the Son - and hence soul - primary in relation to metaphysics, that the Son can get the better of the Father, as it were, and thus establish a context in which the soul - and hence grace - is paramount, as germane to a properly religious dispensation.

16. With physics, by contrast, the Father - and hence ego - is primary and the Son - and hence soul - secondary, and therefore the Father will always get the better of the Son and maintain a context, like Catholic Christianity traditionally, in which the ego - and hence sin - is paramount, as germane to a falsely religious and, indeed, properly economic dispensation.

17. It is for this reason that Christianity, associated as it is with the First Coming, is a religious failure, since life is primarily interpreted in terms of sin and only secondarily in terms of grace, as germane to the context, necessarily physical, in question.

18. This is what legitimises the desire for a Second Coming and his 'Kingdom', since it is only in the context of metaphysics, and sensibly so alone, that it becomes possible to interpret life, for those who are 'up to' the Element in question, primarily in terms of grace and only secondarily in terms of sin, since salvation is, after all, from the Father to the Son, as from the ears to the lungs, in which latter context the Son is genuine, and hence above prayer.

19. Returning to our fourfold generalizations, with one deity, so to speak, to each Element, we can equate the Daughter with beauty, as germane to her primary manifestation in metachemistry, specifically with regard to the eyes; the Mother with strength, as germane to her primary manifestation in chemistry, specifically with regard to the womb; the Father with knowledge, as germane to his primary manifestation in physics, specifically with regard to the penis; and, finally, the Son with truth, as germane to his primary manifestation in metaphysics, specifically with regard to the lungs.

20. Hence the triumph of the will with the Daughter per se; the triumph of the spirit with the Mother per se; the triumph of the ego with the Father per se; and the triumph of the soul with the Son per se, as we range across the Elements from fire and water on the female side of life to vegetation (earth) and air on its male side, the side in which not beauty and strength, but knowledge and truth have their respective thrones.