CYCLE ONE: SOMETHING FROM NOTHING

1. Something from nothing, not nothing from something or something for nothing, but something from nothing, as time from space, or solar from stellar, or submasculine from superfeminine, or Satan from Jehovah, or falsity (delusion) from ugliness, or grace from crime, or ... plenum from vacuum.

2. Something from nothing, not so much as stars from space as ... suns from stars, airy plenums from fiery vacuums, like a noumenal son from a noumenal mother, woe from hatred, and wisdom from evil.

3. And in another, lower context ... sons from mothers, as something from nothing, masculine from feminine, phenomenal subjectivity from phenomenal objectivity, consciousness from unconsciousness, ego from instinct, knowledge from strength, pleasure from pride.

4. Thus man from woman has the ring of something from nothing, not something for nothing or nothing from something (although nothing from nothing in the case of female offspring cannot be ruled out), but a plenumous something from a vacuous nothing, a creature with a capacity for morality from one who is rooted in immorality and destined, no matter how shrewd, to remain fundamentally immoral throughout her entire life.

5. Woman precedes man as stars precede the sun or, lower down on the phenomenal planes of volume and mass, as the moon precedes the (vegetative) earth, but men have the capacity to supersede women as Mars supersedes the oceanic aspect of planet earth or, up above on the noumenal planes of time and space, as Saturn supersedes Venus.

6. The male elements in life will be dominated by the female elements in sensuality and liberated from them in sensibility, the former commensurate with the 'once-born' enslavement to precedence, and the latter with the 're-born' salvation (liberation from enslavement) of succedence.

7. The World conceived in terms of a compromise between feminine and masculine elements only works on the basis of the dominion of nothing over something, of woman over man, and is accordingly heathenistic. For the heathen is that which, wallowing in sensuality, accords with 'once-born' as opposed to 're-born' criteria.

8. The nothingness of free will can only prevail over the somethingness of natural determinism when heathenistic criteria are paramount, whether with regard to noumenal or to phenomenal planes, the 'upper' contexts of space and time or the 'lower' contexts of volume and mass.

9. Free will stems from nothingness as light from the stars or rain from the clouds, and air and vegetation (earth) are its principal targets respectively.

10. The objectivity of freedom is commensurate with the nothingness of a vacuous precondition, and is either evil (if noumenal) or good (if phenomenal), but never foolish or wise!

11. The subjectivity of natural determinism (binding) is commensurate with the somethingness of a plenumous precondition, and is either foolish (if phenomenal) or wise (if noumenal), but never evil or good!

12. That which, ever female, is rooted in nothingness will alternate between the evil of noumenal objectivity and the goodness of phenomenal objectivity, as between no-one and nobody.

13. That which, ever male, is centred in somethingness will alternate between the folly of phenomenal subjectivity and the wisdom of noumenal subjectivity, as between somebody and someone.

14. For nothingness extends from the noumenal objectivity of fire to the phenomenal objectivity of water on the female side of life, as from the ethereal to the corporeal, whereas somethingness extends from the phenomenal subjectivity of vegetation to the noumenal subjectivity of air on the male side of it, as from the corporeal to the ethereal.

15. Somethingness has the ability to extend beyond nothingness on both the phenomenal and the noumenal planes of life but cannot exist entirely independent of it, even when liberated from enslavement to sensual precedence. For vegetation is as dependent on water as ... air upon fire.