CYCLE FOUR

1. True wisdom has reference not to prayer, that religious mode of cogitation, but to meditation, and is thus elementally commensurate with being into air through the lungs, rather than into vegetation (earth) through the brain.

2. Meditation is as distinct from breathing ... as cogitation (including prayer) from thinking.

3. Like breathing, thinking happens naturally and, as it were, spontaneously, without recourse to conscious effort and/or control.

4. Anyone can think, but only the clever man can cogitate, thinking logically and rationally about something over a protracted period of time.

5. Anyone can breathe, but only the wise man, effectively a superman, can meditate.

6. There is nothing higher or better than meditation, and once one has achieved a spiritual knowledge of the desirability of meditating ... and meditates, one ceases to be foolish and becomes wise, ascending beyond man to superman, beyond vegetation to air, beyond sin to grace.

7. Even prayer is foolish to the extent that it involves a religious mode of cogitation, and thus reflects a cerebral allegiance to the intellect/word in what is nothing more than a 're-born' form of vegetation.

8. Prayer may not, in view of its religious nature, be sinful, but it can never amount to anything more than a mode of pseudo-grace, in which universality is achieved, via some 'deity', through the intellect rather than through the spirit.

9. Only the out-breath of meditation can bring one true grace through the achievement of spiritual universality.

10. Spiritual universality should not be confounded with the cosmic Universe, since it is commensurate with the inner metaphysical self's embracing, through the out-breath of the spirit, the universal medium of air, which is omnipresent.

11. The cosmic Universe stands at the opposite extreme from spiritual universality, since it has to do with noumenal objectivity in metachemical materialism, and is accordingly superfeminine rather than supermasculine.

12. The eyes stand closest to the spatial space of metachemical materialism, and accordingly reflect that which is at the opposite extreme from the lungs and their metaphysical commitment to spaced space.

13. Cosmic universality is the evil universality of spatial space which stands as far removed from the wise universality of spaced space as it is logically possible to infer: a vicious alpha in superfeminine fire, as opposed to a virtuous omega in supermasculine air.

14. The fairy at the top of the Christmas tree corresponds to the vicious alpha of spatial space and its evil universality, as does a bride decked-up from head-to-toe in a white gauzy wedding dress and veil, seemingly cascading light in due superfeminine fashion.

15. Just as fire is always evil, whether it be outer (and untransvaluated/once born) or inner (and transvaluated/re-born), so air is always wise, whether it be outer (and untransvaluated/once born) or inner (and transvaluated/re-born).

16. Nevertheless, it is better to be transvaluated/re-born in fire or air than untransvaluated/once born there: better to the extent that the supreme and/or sensible replaces the primal and/or sensual.

17. Just as water is always good, whether outer (and untransvaluated/once born) or inner (and transvaluated/re-born), so vegetation is always foolish, whether outer (and untransvaluated/once born) or inner (and transvaluated/re-born).

18. Nevertheless, it is better to be transvaluated/re-born in water or vegetation than untransvaluated/once born there: better to the extent that the supreme and/or sensible replaces the primal and/or sensual.

19. Of course, in actuality it doesn't work out quite that simply; for the female side of life will 'pull rank' over the male side of it in untransvaluated/once born primal and/or sensual terms, and would accordingly have something to lose from too protracted a commitment to transvaluated/re-born criteria.

20. Life is, of course, a struggle between opposing genders, with the odds very much stacked in the female's favour, whether with regard to fire vis-à-vis air or, down below (in the phenomenal planes), with regard to water vis-à-vis vegetation. Yet that is still no excuse, on the male's part, for pessimism or defeatism. The Cross, remember, is an uphill but not impossible commitment!

21. So long as senses prevail over sensibilities, outer sense over inner sense, the eyes will dominate the ears, as superfeminine vis-à-vis submasculine sensuality, while the tongue will dominate the phallus, as upper-feminine over lower-masculine sensuality.

22. Only in rebirth can the male side of life achieve freedom from female domination, whether in terms of the brain permitting one to 'turn one's back' on the womb, as upper-masculine (in Christ) vis-à-vis lower-feminine sensibility, or in terms of the lungs permitting one to 'turn one's back' on the heart, as supermasculine vis-à-vis subfeminine sensibility.

23. The 'super' applies to the plane of Space, whether in relation to spatial space at the alpha (superfeminine) pole or to spaced space at the omega (supermasculine) pole.

24. The 'sub' applies to the plane of Time, whether in relation to sequential time at the omega (submasculine) pole or to repetitive time at the alpha (subfeminine) pole.

25. The 'upper' applies to the plane of Volume, whether in relation to volumetric volume at the alpha (feminine) pole or to voluminous volume at the omega (masculine) pole.

26. The 'lower' applies to the plane of Mass, whether in relation to massive mass at the omega (masculine) pole or to massed mass at the alpha (feminine) pole.