Close
Proximity of Low with High and of High with Low. It has
been said that the low and the high or, conversely, the high and the low ‘hang
together’, in elemental proximity to each other, and, to be sure, that is
absolutely the case. Even if we account for the Devil and Antigod noumenal lowness and noumenal antihighness at the
northwest point or, conversely, the God and Antidevil
noumenal highness and noumenal
antilowness at the northeast point of the intercardinal axial compass, we soon find, on closer
inspection, that such distinctions amount to generalizations concerning the
more characteristic, according to gender, aspects of each position, be it
elemental or anti-elemental, hegemonic or subservient. For such
juxtapositions of lowness and highness accrue, as we have seen, to the same
element, be it metachemical, chemical, physical, or
metaphysical, and even their corresponding anti-elements reflect such a
dichotomy both in terms, always more significant, of what they are against and,
with what little remains to them following the rejection (consciously or
unconsciously) of their gender ideal, the extent to which they defer to the
prevailing ideal, be it somatic (and female) or psychic (and male).