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CALMNESS: Emotional attribute of air, calmness is germane to metaphysical soul.

CARDINAL ELEMENTS: Fire, water, vegetation (earth), and air are defined by me as the four cardinal elements - fire being metachemical, or germane to the noumenal objectivity of space-time devolution; water being chemical, or germane to the phenomenal objectivity of volume-mass devolution; vegetation being physical, or germane to the phenomenal subjectivity of mass-volume evolution; and air being metaphysical, or germane to the noumenal subjectivity of time-space evolution.

CASE: Social Transcendentalism recognizes - though does not invariably apply - a noumenal/phenomenal distinction between upper case and lower case, the former applying to either metachemical or metaphysical contexts, the latter to their chemical or physical counterparts in what amounts to a volume-mass or mass-volume phenomenal shortfall from time-space or space-time noumenality.

CATHOLICISM: Catholicism is by and large the mode of Christianity which most approximates to ‘reborn’ vegetativeness, as described elsewhere, since, unlike Protestantism, it operates within a non-triangular hierarchy that allows the masculine to rise above the feminine and aspire, no matter how paradoxically, towards the divine, albeit with a stronger emphasis, due to theocratic control, upon the submasculine divinity of the Father, corresponding to sequential time, than upon the supermasculine divinity, corresponding to spaced space, of the Holy Spirit or, more to the (Social Transcendentalist) point, the superman, who utilizes holy spirit, i.e. the breath, for meditative purposes. Hence Catholicism, for all its male-oriented hierarchical binding to Christian values, falls back, willy-nilly, upon the Father, albeit a Father Who, isolated within papal parameters from the full-gamut of pyramidal factors within the Superheathen triangle of, for instance, Judaism, paradoxically connives at a non-triangular, or Christian, hierarchy in which, contrary to heathenistic norms, men have effectively climbed beyond women in their adherence to the Cross. Nonetheless, even such a non-pyramidal Creator is unlikely to encourage a break from Himself, and so Catholicism remains tied to the 'kingdom without' even as it affirms, through Christ, the penultimate 'kingdom within', the kingdom, in ‘reborn’ vegetativeness, of cerebral sensibility. Thus sensible unholiness - for vegetation certainly remains unholy vis-à-vis air - is obliged to accommodate sensual holiness to the exclusion of sensible holiness, the holiness which stretches atheistically beyond the Father, as taught and upheld by the Superchristian prophet of 'Kingdom Come', and Messianic rejecter of Catholicism/Christianity.

CAUSE: Causes can be direct or indirect, as well as absolute or relative. Direct causes invariably precede their effects, as will precedes spirit, whereas indirect causes, or effective causes, produce effects which owe something, though not everything, to the cause of which they are the effects. There is also another and more basic sense in which soma is the cause of psyche, as particles of wavicles.

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM: The thick bands of nerve fibres which stretch from the base of the brain, via the brain stem, down the spinal cord, and which are responsible for a variety of somatic and psychic processes, including those associated with the id and the soul. In fact, the central nervous system lies at the core of the human person and is commensurate, so I maintain, with the self, the root or core from which everything else, including the greater part of the brain, has evolved. But if the central nervous system, coupled to the brain stem, is the physiological manifestation of the self, then the soul, the ego, and the mind are all definitions of the self in each of its principal psychical manifestations, the first subconscious, the second conscious, and the third superconscious. They are psychical aspects, in other words, of both the nervous physiology of the central nervous system and the organic physiology, or somatology, of any given not-self and its selfless complement of spirit, and thereby exist to these other factors as psyche to soma.

CENTRE: The term 'Centre' has long stood, in my work, for that which is most omega-orientated, and hence radically centripetal. Beyond a 'Centre', in this sense, it is impossible to go, since this is the ne plus ultra of evolutionary progress. Thus 'Kingdom Come' has been described as a 'Centre', even as 'the Centre', although, these days, I would reserve that term for the religious rather than administrative aspect of things in 'Kingdom Come', with especial reference, in consequence, to the three-tier structure of the triadic Beyond, each of whose tiers would constitute a separate 'centre'. Hence, in its administrative aspects, which I have customarily identified with the concept of an 'administrative aside' to the said triadic Beyond, 'Kingdom Come' should be conceived of as a sort of 'Kingdom' or, more to the executive-presidential point, pseudo-Kingdom, one presided over by a 'God-King', the Second Coming of Messianic prophecy, but it is also, by definition, the context in which 'the Centre' ... of triadic praxis attains to a definitive realization.

CHEMICAL: This term is used by me to refer to that which, in elemental terms, corresponds to water, and is therefore identifiable, through phenomenal objectivity, with a feminine disposition, be it in volume or mass, sensuality or sensibility. For volume-mass devolution is the chemical axis par excellence, and on that axis chemistry can be negative (and realistic) or positive (and nonconformist), depending whether it follows from an inorganic (geologic) precondition or, on the contrary, from an organic (personal) precondition. Either way, the chemical is always phenomenal, never noumenal, and stands in a phenomenally antithetical relationship to the physical, as woman to man, or purgatory to the earth.

CHEMICAL ELEMENTS/ELEMENTINOS: Electrons/electrinos are regarded as the chemical elements/elementinos par excellence, and therefore those which, in the molecular particles of their watery quantities, are of volume-mass devolution in both sensuality (electrons) and sensibility (electrinos). It has also been maintained that positrons and positrinos are their more radical counterparts, as though symptomatic of a Christian, as opposed to a Heathen, disposition.

CHEMICAL SALUTES: Salutes such that parallel volume-mass devolution in the phenomenal objectivity of their democratic-to-bureaucratic relativity, from the extended-hand/arm-to-head of volumetric volume to the extended-hand/arm-to-chest of massed mass.

CHRISTIANITY: Christianity is the religion par excellence of vegetation, not of air, water, or fire, though all the other elements come into it in some degree, if tangentially to what is properly Christian. Thus Christianity is, by definition, a phenomenal, or lower-class, religion whose fulcrum, being vegetative, is ego, and hence form. In fact, it is this association with ego which keeps it masculine, and hence sinful or sin-conscious, a religion centred in knowledge and therefore fundamentally unholy. For contentment in vegetativeness is second-rate, the second-rate soulfulness of pleasure, which is always under the shadow, as it were, of first-rate form, viz. knowledge, the sinful cynosure, in man, of Christianity. However, Christianity proper is certainly a sensible, or ‘reborn’, mode of vegetativeness, in which the knowledge and pleasure are cerebral rather than carnal, and thus of volume voluminously rather than of mass massively. Yet this is still phenomenal and physical, not noumenal and metaphysical, and therefore no better than a lower-class male order of salvation. And such a ‘reborn’ vegetativeness finds itself anchored to a 'once-born' order of airiness, the sensual metaphysics of 'the Father', whose 'kingdom without' is ever at variance with the 'kingdom within' to which cerebral sensibility subscribes.

CHURCH: The institutional body of Christ, the Church is distinct from, though usually implicated in, the State, despite a professed adherence to Christ, Whose 'kingdom' is/was not of this world. Nevertheless, the Church remains an aspect of the world, since Christianity is a phenomenal religion and more usually ministers to than transcends the world, as in the performance of marriage ceremonies and tolerance of mixed congregations.

CIVILIZATION: If nature is physical, then civilization is chemical, the watery mean of a feminine disposition which glories in pride and/or humbleness, depending on the context, i.e. whether positive (and personal) or negative (and geologic). Civilization is therefore a phenomenally objective achievement which embraces volume-mass devolution in due nonconformist and/or realist fashion. It is the phenomenal counterpart to nature, and is therefore as far removed from nature, or the natural, as anything can be. But if it is contrary to nature, it is the enemy of barbarism, as of the metachemical. For civilization is good in its spiritual focus, whereas barbarism is evil in its wilful or instinctual focus, and good and evil are ever in competition with each other to secure control, in sensuality, over folly and wisdom, viz. nature and culture. Civilization is incontrovertibly preferable to barbarism, but a hegemonic civilization determined to keep barbarism under wraps tends to dominate nature and exclude culture, neither of which can predominate except in relation to sensibility.

CIVILIZED ELEMENT: Water is the civilized element par excellence, and therefore that which, in its chemical freedom, is phenomenally objective.

CLASS: Social Transcendentalism recognizes a noumenal/phenomenal distinction between upper class and lower class, the former applying to either metachemical or metaphysical contexts, the latter to chemical or physical contexts; the former divisible between diabolic (superfeminine and/or subfeminine) and divine (submasculine and/or supermasculine), the latter divisible between feminine and masculine in 'upper' (volume) and 'lower' (mass) manifestations.

CLASS SLANG: To contrast the metachemical magic of fiery 'nobs', whether autocratic or aristocratic, with the metaphysical mysticism of airy 'snobs', whether theocratic or meritocratic, and each of these noumenal class options with the chemical gnosticism of watery 'slobs', whether democratic or bureaucratic, and the physical classicism of vegetative 'yobs', whether technocratic or plutocratic.

CLASSICISM: Appertaining to the phenomenal subjectivity of mass-volume evolution, classicism is a physical attribute primarily concerned with qualities, whether in relation to knowledge (positive) or to ignorance (negative), the former Christian (humanist) and the latter Heathen (naturalist). Thus classicism has masculine associations, in keeping with its intellectual basis in physical form.

CLEAR: Denoting the phenomenally objective nature of chemical spirit, the primary spirit of those affiliated, through purgatorial glory, to volume-mass devolution.

COLDNESS: Qualitative attribute of water, coldness is germane to chemical ego.

COLLECTIVISM: Corresponding to the relativity of molecular particles and/or wavicles, collectivism has specific applicability to mass and/or volume, and is accordingly of the world in its femininity and/or masculinity. Collectivism is therefore a lower-class phenomenon, with particular reference to chemical politics (parliamentary) on the one hand, that of feminine collectivism, and to physical economics (capitalism) on the other hand, that of masculine collectivism.

COMPETITIVE: The objective, or female, side of life is deemed to be primarily competitive (and only secondarily co-operative) in both individual (noumenal) and collective (phenomenal) contexts, whether with regard to sensuality or to sensibility, since objectivity is based in particles, and never more so than in the metachemical and chemical elements.

COMPRESSIVE: Denoting the phenomenally objective nature of chemical will, the primary will of those affiliated, through feminine power, to volume-mass devolution.

CONSCIOUS: The conscious mind, or ego, is that aspect of psyche, in whichever element, which is affiliated to the not-self, and thus to will. It is not integral to the self, or central nervous system, but depends on the prior existence of will in whatever not-self for its conscious definition as ego.

CONSCIOUS VOLITION: The ego can choose which type of soma to utilize, whether in sensuality or in sensibility, as well as contrive to modify and/or embellish the somatic not-self to which it relates. It can even, in extreme cases, deny soma altogether, thereby electing to die or commit suicide. For although psyche is dependent upon soma for its experience, it is not the slave of soma, and is in that sense 'free', or able to choose. Were this not the case, one would never be able to move between different types of soma; although it is also evidently the case that gender and class restrict one's movement to some extent, since one is what one is by dint of having a particular type of ego, not several egos! Now this ego may be able to move between several types of soma, but it will not be as 'at home' in some of them as in others. For although different types of soma may suggest the possibility of corresponding types of ego, in actuality each person is restricted, according to gender and genetic factors, to a certain type of ego corresponding to his particular soma, an ego which will not easily allow itself to be deflected or sidelined by other types of ego, but rather strive to handle other types of soma as best it can, with, obviously, variable results.

CONSERVATISM: Stands on the male side of life as a subjective alternative to, and rejection of, libertarianism. Whether the conservatism be phenomenal (and moderate) or noumenal (and extreme), it will take a subjective stance in life and thus advance male values at the expense of female ones. In elemental terms, this means that conservatism has associations with either vegetation (if phenomenal) or air (if noumenal), and will be concerned about the fate of these elements vis-à-vis the libertarianism of fire and water. Obviously, phenomenal conservatism, or conservatism proper, will chiefly be concerned with vegetation in its economic and/or religious manifestations, compatible with capitalism and humanism, while noumenal conservatism, or ultra-conservatism, will chiefly be concerned with air in its economic and religious manifestations, viz. corporatism and transcendentalism. In fact, it is a firmly held belief of mine that economics comes first for conservatism and religion first for ultra-conservatism, thereby distinguishing the per se discipline of vegetation, viz. economics, from the per se discipline of air, viz. religion. Either way, science and politics, corresponding in their per se manifestations to fire and water, can only be subordinate considerations for conservatives, whatever their class.

CONTENT: Defined as the quantification of quality, content supersedes form but precedes contentment, as the ego becomes spiritualized prior to reverting to soul.

CONTENTMENT: The condition of essence, or soul, as quantified quality, or spiritualized ego, reacts against the selflessness of spirit and rebounds to the core of the self, wherein it is (at least temporarily) redeemed. Thus contentment is the psychic state lying beyond content, the subconscious resolution of a superconscious transmutation of consciousness.

CONVERGENCE: Things, i.e. wills, converge in either objective or subjective ways, depending on their gender. To converge objectively is to tend towards a point in straight, or barbed, lines, whereas to converge subjectively is to tend towards a point in circular, or curved, lines. Like its antithesis divergence, convergence can be either noumenal or phenomenal, depending on the plane and/or axis of the perceived convergence, though it will always be sensible.

CO-OPERATIVE: The subjective, or male, side of life is deemed to be primarily co-operative (and only secondarily competitive) in both collective (phenomenal) and individual (noumenal) contexts, whether with regard to sensuality or to sensibility, since subjectivity is centred in wavicles, and never more so than in the physical and metaphysical elements.

COSMIC: The negative mode of noumenal existence, a sort of noumenal antilife at the back of space/time negativity, which stretches from stellar to Venusian in space-time devolution and, contrariwise, from solar to Saturnian in time-space evolution.

CRUEL: The metachemical mode of wisdom, whether negative or positive. Hence both hatred (negative) and love (positive) are definable in terms of emotional cruelty, the essence of Hell.

CULTURE: Applies to the noumenal subjectivity of metaphysics and to the metaphysical element of air par excellence, as something which transcends (goes beyond) nature or the natural, as God transcends man or Heaven transcends the earth, or protons and/or protinos transcend neutrons and/or neutrinos (not to mention their more radical counterparts, deuterons and/or deuterinos). Culture is therefore the antithesis of barbarism, which is equally noumenal, and hence upper class, but associated with fire rather than air. Thus music is the cultural art form par excellence, not art! For music is the art form of the airwaves, and thus of air. But there is no culture like self-culture, and the cultivation of self-awareness through transcendental meditation is the highest mode of culture. Being cultured is thus to be either a subman in metaphysical sensuality (aural) or a superman in metaphysical sensibility (respiratory), with the latter being very much the salvation of the former, as from outer to inner, time to space. Strictly speaking, there is no culture elsewhere than in metaphysics, for physics is natural, chemistry civilized, and metachemistry barbarous.

CURSED: Cursed in negativity, from most cursed in metachemistry to least cursed in metaphysics via more (relative to most) cursed in chemistry and less (relative to least) cursed in physics. Also from most cursed in negative science to least cursed in negative religion via more (relative to most) cursed in negative politics and less (relative to least) cursed in negative economics, whatever the element.

CYBORG TRANSITION: Period of time and technological development in between man and the post-Human Millennium, the coming time of what, for Social Transcendentalists, would be a completely post-human age and society in which the self, meaning principally the central nervous system, including the brain stem, was artificially supported and sustained in collectivistic contexts. The cyborg would accordingly be more artificial, in its recourse to synthetic organs and/or limbs, than man, indeed, would be properly superhuman, if not supra-human and ultra-human also, but less artificial, or technologically advanced, than the post-human life forms - call them Superbeings, Supra-beings, and Ultra-beings - that would have been, or were destined to be, engineered out of it, with the ensuing Millennium proper. Hence, considered superhumanistically, as it were, these cyborgs would be transitional between the ultimate stage(s) of human evolution and the ultimate stage(s) of evolution as such, a stemming from man but an intimation of that which may be considered to be as much or as far beyond him ... as trees and apes, in that order, were behind him in terms of pre-dating, in virtual Edenic fashion, the rise of man from beast to fully human.

CYCLE: To represent ideas so that they recur in modified terms at regular or various points in the text ... is to cycle thematically, thereby maintaining a curvilinear style of composition. Alternatively, one can cycle aphorisms, etc., in such a way that their numbers recur through a series of headings, rather like chapters of a novel. Either way, the work is proceeding in a cyclical manner commensurate with a radically subjective approach to text, the sort of approach one would associate with a noumenally conservative, or ultra-conservative, philosopher, and thus with the ne plus ultra of philosophy.