CYCLE NINE: METAPHYSICAL DEVOTION OF THE ULTIMATE SELF

1. One should distinguish the inner metaphysical self, as superconscious mind, from the inner metaphysical will, as divine superpower, and the inner metaphysical spirit, as sublime superglory, so that one comes to think of them in terms akin to a Son/Father/Holy Ghost trinity of inner metaphysical factors which allow the Son to utilize the Father in order to experience the Holy Ghost.

2. The Father corresponds to the Ground ... of all sensible being, the inner metaphysical will, which links the Knower to the Unknown or, rather, Unseen, the Son to the Holy Ghost, mind to spirit in inner metaphysical terms, and thus enables him, the superman, to experience that joy which comes from being carried up and away upon the 'wings of the breath' to an identification with the Holy Spirit of Heaven.

3. The inner metaphysical self, the ultimate self of superconscious mind, will simply exist until and unless it is brought to experiential fulfilment through the spirit, and thus partakes of that joy which comes to it when the lightness which is of the spirit 'rubs off' onto it in due process of enlightenment.

4. The transcendence of metaphysical existence is only possible to the ultimate self, the superconscious mind of the superman, via the experiment of superpowerful will, the inner metaphysical will, whose capacity to breathe transports this ultimate self towards experiential enlightenment in harmony with the spirit, some of whose glory 'rubs off' onto it, and accordingly glorifies it in relation to Heaven.

5. Thus the Son plunges into the Father to achieve unity with the Holy Spirit, mind leading to spirit via will on the plane of sensible metaphysics, as that which is supermasculine becomes, by turns, quasi-divine and quasi-sublime, quasi-wilful (full of will) and quasi-spiritual, through its association with both experimental and experiential modes of metaphysics, thereby transcending its existence in the most sublime feeling there is.

6. To realize the ultimate self as superconscious mind, to deny the ultimate self through the superwill (of the lungs to breathe), thereby affirming God, and to fulfil the ultimate self through the superglorious spirit (of the out-breath itself), thereby achieving unity (no matter how briefly) with that which is truly heavenly and experiencing, in consequence, blessed enlightenment, as superconscious mind is borne aloft on meditative wings of joyful surrender to universal essence.

7. Such is the pattern of inner metaphysical devotion, which has to be repeated time after time, in due cyclical vein, if one is to sustain anything like a consistently joyful level of being.

8. For being is that which pertains to metaphysics, to essence, and one cannot achieve inner experiential being unless one sacrifices inner existential being to inner experimental being, thereby passing beyond the ultimate self to unity with ultimate Heaven via ultimate God.

9. For the ultimate self is neither an end-in-itself nor a means-to-an-end, but a platform of inner psychic existence which can live being more fully if, in its wisdom, it surrenders to the respiratory will of ultimate God and is thereby brought into direct contact with the Holy Spirit of ultimate Heaven.