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EARS: The sensual noumenal not-self corresponding to the metaphysical context of sequential time, the ears are the organic focus of truth in secondary (powerful) as opposed to primary (formal) terms, given the subjectivity of this particular element. They are also the basis of what may be called the counter-Cupidian axis diagonally stretching from time to space, as from ears to lungs, in time-space evolution.

EARTH: Apart from its standard use as name for the planet upon which we happen to live, the term 'earth' serves to define a vegetative mean having reference to masculine values. In fact, used in this way, 'earth' is on a par with, though different from, purgatory, its feminine counterpart, and therefore is one aspect of a worldly totality, a totality no less phenomenal than Heaven and Hell are noumenal. Thus 'earth' serves to define a religious context distinct from the contexts of purgatory, Hell, and Heaven. Where others might think of the elements in terms of fire, water, earth, and air, I substitute 'vegetation' for 'earth', thereby generally reserving the latter for identification with a religious context or experience, as described above.

ECONOMICS: The physical discipline par excellence, economics is everywhere centred in molecular wavicles, as that which is primarily concerned with the quality as opposed, like politics, with the quantity of things. Thus it is the discipline par excellence of the ego, whether in physical, metaphysical, metachemical, or chemical terms, and therefore the less (relative to least) basic and/or the more (relative to most) advanced disciplinary approach to life. Economics generally excludes woman when physical, or capitalist, because physics is the element of man, as of the earth, though 'bovaryized' economics, of which the metaphysical, metachemical, and chemical modes are incrementally all examples, is less concerned with the masculine aspect of things than with either the divine, the diabolic, or the feminine aspects of them, depending on the context, i.e. whether corporate, communist, or socialist.

EDENIC SOUL: The id-based soul is Edenic, or Eden-like, to the extent that it reflects an alpha orientation that is sufficient unto itself and unlikely to inspire its impulsive/lustful devotee to an interest in or hope for an Afterlife. On the contrary, adherence to the undersoul, as one could call the Edenic soul in relation to ego-based, or civilized, types of soul, precludes all but a generative concept of Eternity, a concept based in propagation, thereby confirming a pagan disposition. Only denial of the Edenic soul leads, via the sublimated soul of civilized religion, to a belief in the Afterlife, since the concept of a heavenly omega is only possible once the alpha has been rejected, the pagan soul not lending itself to notions of posthumous salvation in, for example, Christian terms, although the concept of a return to and/or possible rejection (reincarnation) by the Cosmos remains ever potent.

EFFECT: Like causes, effects can be direct or indirect, as well as absolutist or relativistic. Direct effects immediately succeed their causes, as spirit succeeds will, whereas indirect effects, or causative effects, produce causes which owe something, though not everything, to the effects of which they are the cause. More basically, it could also be argued that psyche is the effect of soma, as wavicles of particles.

EGO: The conscious aspect of the self, whether the self be metachemical, chemical, physical, or metaphysical. Thus the ego can be diabolic, feminine, masculine, or divine, depending on the type of person concerned, whether female or male in upper- or lower-class terms. Only in the vegetative context of physics is ego made (falsely) an end-in-itself, since only in the physical context of vegetative masculinity is the ego in its per se manifestation, whether in sensuality or in sensibility, carnally or intellectually. As the focus of self in consciousness, ego is the central aspect of the psyche in between what may be called subegocentric and superegocentric extremes, the one corresponding to soul and the other to mind.

ELECTIVE: Denoting the noumenally subjective nature of metaphysical ego, the primary ego of those affiliated, through divine form, to time-space evolution.

ELECTRON/ELECTRINO: This element/elementino is regarded as having a watery and therefore feminine connotation which places it in the sphere of volume-mass devolution, albeit as the conventional counterpart to positrons/positrinos. Thus both electrons in sensuality and electrinos in sensibility are always phenomenal, never noumenal.

ELEMENT: The most basic unit of the atom, elements are defined by me as sensual particles and/or wavicles having a larger scale, relative to any particular element, than elementinos. The most common elements include photons, protons, electrons, and neutrons, the first two noumenal and the other two phenomenal, while positrons and deuterons are granted, in my philosophy, a more radical standing in relation to electrons and neutrons respectively.

ELEMENTINO: As above, except that elementinos are defined by me as sensible particles and/or wavicles having a smaller scale, relative to any particular elementino, than elements.

ELEMENT SLANG: To contrast the metachemical equation of fire as 'pus' with the metaphysical equation of air as 'gas', and each of these noumenal elements with the (arguably more populist and phenomenally pervasive) chemical equation of water as 'piss' and the physical equation of vegetation (earth) as 'shit', thereby contrasting the objectivity of 'puss' and 'piss' with the subjectivity of 'shit' and 'gas' ... as one would contrast fire and water with vegetation and air, or things diabolic and feminine with their masculine and divine counterparts.

ELEMENTAL RELATIVITY: The theory that everything is to be found everywhere, though not in the same way or to the same extent, since the nature of, for example, evil, good, folly, and wisdom varies from element to element, as from most to least via more and less or, alternatively, least to most via less and more. Hence in all elements the will is evil, since evil appertains to the doing of power (crime), which is apparent, especially in the metachemical per se but also, to varying extents, in each of the other elements. Likewise, in all elements the spirit is good, since goodness appertains to the giving of glory (punishment), which is quantitative, especially in the chemical per se but also, to varying extents, in each of the other elements. Similarly, in all elements the ego is foolish, since folly appertains to the taking of form (sin), which is qualitative, especially in the physical per se but also, to varying extents, in each of the other elements. Finally, in all elements the soul is wise, since wisdom appertains to the being of content (grace), which is essential, especially in the metaphysical per se but also, to varying extents, in each of the other elements.

ESSENCE: Essence is at the furthest possible remove from appearance, as being from doing, the soul as opposed to the will, the last as opposed to the first, the best as opposed to the worst, the deepest as opposed to the shallowest, or most superficial. Essence exists in all elemental contexts, from metachemistry and chemistry on the female side of life to physics and metaphysics on its male side, but if it is fourth-rate in fire, it is first-rate in air, the mystical element par excellence. In fact, on a different basis from the above, one could distinguish the least wise essence of metachemical soul (love) from the less (relative to least) wise essence of chemical soul (pride), and these female alternatives on noumenal and phenomenal planes from the more (relative to most) wise essence of physical soul (pleasure) and the most wise essence of metaphysical soul (joy), both of which, being phenomenally and noumenally subjective, are of course male. Be that as it may, essence is invariably beingful, even if the degree or type of being varies considerably according to the nature of the element to which it attaches. In this regard, essence has to be understood not only in terms of gender differentials but, no less importantly, in terms of class differentials.

EXPRESSIVE: Denoting the noumenally objective nature of metachemical will, the primary will of those affiliated, through diabolic power, to space-time devolution.

ETERNAL (SEMPITERNAL): Denoting the noumenally subjective nature of metaphysical soul, the primary soul of those affiliated, through heavenly contentment, to time-space evolution.

ETERNAL SOUL: Soul is the eternal aspect of the self considered psychically, whether in the untransvaluated terms of the Edenic soul (undersoul) or, more specific to this entry, in the transvaluated terms of the Eternal soul (oversoul) - terms which embrace everything from metachemistry and chemistry to physics and metaphysics, thereby permitting to the oversoul different modes of sublimated, or omega-oriented, afterlife experience which contrast with the pagan, and alpha-oriented, afterlife experience of the undersoul. Briefly, one may distinguish between the 'barbarous eternity' of the metachemical afterlife (Hell), the 'civilized eternity' of the chemical afterlife (purgatory), the 'natural eternity' of the physical afterlife (earth), and the 'cultural eternity' of the metaphysical afterlife (Heaven), with, broadly, fundamentalist, nonconformist, humanist, and transcendentalist distinctions - at any rate, as applying to positive modes of afterlife experience.

ETERNITY: Having more to do with metachemistry and metaphysics than with chemistry and physics, Eternity both precedes and succeeds human life, as fire precedes water and as air succeeds vegetation. The Afterlife is a naturalistic or organic manifestation of Eternal Life, to the extent that it signifies a permanent condition, albeit not one that is likely to last very long and certainly not for ever, insofar as our concept of the Afterlife has to do with an 'inner light', or internal illumination, brought about by chemical changes in the central nervous system, including the brain stem, following death. Obviously the stars are, in durational terms, Eternal compared to or, rather, contrasted with the relatively brief duration of, say, the 'Christian afterlife', though their longevity is still subject to dissolution eventually. My own ideological concept of Eternity is one that pertains to an extension of evolving life beyond the human level to a post-human and effectively superhuman one, in which there is no death because life can be sustained, both synthetically and artificially, beyond the mortality of 'the flesh'. Yet this would have to be conceived in relation to moral and, preferably, religious values, if it was to be sustainable beyond mere personal self-interest to a level of universal salvation, fit antithesis to the Cosmos.

EVIL: Anything to do with power, and hence the will, is equated with evil, whether it be the most evil power of metachemical will, which is expressive in its noumenal objectivity; the more (relative to most) evil power of chemical will, which is compressive in its phenomenal objectivity; the less (relative to least) evil power of physical will, which is depressive in its phenomenal subjectivity; or the least evil power of metaphysical will, which is impressive in its noumenal subjectivity. Whatever its elemental correlation, evil is always apparent, never quantitative, qualitative, or essential. It is therefore the basis not only of goodness but, indirectly, of folly and wisdom as well. To seek the total elimination of evil (or power) from life would therefore prove not only impossible but undesirable and, indeed, a mark of philosophical ignorance.

EXCITABLENESS: Essential attribute of vegetation, excitableness is germane to physical soul (pleasure).

EXTROVERT: Someone more disposed to the outer than to the inner, to sensuality than to sensibility, to 'once born' than to ‘reborn’. Extroverts are more likely to be Heathen than Christian and, on a gender basis, female than male.

EYES: The sensual noumenal not-self corresponding to the metachemical context of spatial space, the eyes are the organic focus of beauty in primary (powerful) as opposed to secondary (formal) terms, given the objectivity of this particular element. They are also at the inception of the Cupidian axis diagonally stretching from space to time, as from eyes to heart, in space-time devolution.