CYCLE SEVENTEEN: POSITIVE 'NATURE' AND 'CULTURE'

1. The form that power takes will determine its nature, whereas the content that glory has will determine its culture.

2. For power has intimate connections with form, just as glory is intimately connected with content.

3. One might define the 'nature' of power as having either objective or subjective dispositions in relation to either noumenal (in space and time) or phenomenal (in volume and mass) planes.

4. Similarly, the 'content' of glory ought to be defined in terms of either materialist or realist dispositions in relation to metachemical and chemical elements or, conversely, in terms of either naturalist or idealist dispositions in relation to physical and metaphysical elements respectively.

5. Power can take one of eight principal positive forms, viz. of universal spatial space (outer beauty), of universal repetitive time (inner beauty), of universal sequential time (outer truth), of universal spaced space (inner truth), of personal volumetric volume (outer strength), of personal massed mass (inner strength), of personal massive mass (outer knowledge), and of personal voluminous volume (inner knowledge).

6. Glory can take one of eight principal positive contents, viz. of universal sensual doing (outer love), of universal sensible doing (inner love), of universal sensual being (outer joy), of universal sensible being (inner joy), of personal sensual giving (outer pride), of personal sensible giving (inner pride), of personal sensual taking (outer pleasure), and of personal sensible taking (inner pleasure).

7. The 'nature' of positive power in both universal spatial space and universal repetitive time is noumenally objective, and hence evil in its supreme super-unnaturalism to supreme sub-unnaturalism, whereas the 'nature' of positive power in both universal repetitive time and universal spaced space is noumenally subjective, and hence wise in its supreme subnaturalism to supreme supernaturalism.

8. The 'nature' of positive power in both personal volumetric volume and personal massed mass is phenomenally objective, and hence good in its supreme upper-unnaturalism to supreme lower-unnaturalism, whereas the 'nature' of positive power in both personal massive mass and personal voluminous volume is phenomenally subjective, and hence foolish in its supreme lower-naturalism to supreme upper-naturalism.

9. The 'culture' of positive glory in both universal sensual doing and universal sensible doing is metachemically materialist, and hence vicious in its supreme super-unconsciousness to supreme sub-unconsciousness, whereas the 'culture' of positive glory in both universal sensual being and universal sensible being is metaphysically idealist, and hence virtuous in its supreme subconsciousness to supreme superconsciousness.

10. The 'culture' of positive glory in both personal sensual giving and personal sensible giving is chemically realist, and hence virtuous in its supreme upper-unconsciousness to supreme lower-unconsciousness, whereas the 'culture' of positive glory in both personal sensual taking and personal sensible taking is physically naturalist, and hence vicious in its supreme lower-consciousness to supreme upper-consciousness.

11. Whereas beauty corresponds to evil positive power in both universal spatial space and universal repetitive time, as one descends the space-time axis from outer beauty to inner beauty, love corresponds to vicious positive glory in both universal sensual doing and universal sensible doing, as one descends the axis of metachemical materialism from outer love to inner love.

12. Whereas truth corresponds to wise positive power in both universal sequential time and universal spaced space, as one ascends the time-space axis from outer truth to inner truth, joy corresponds to virtuous positive glory in both universal sensual being and universal sensible being, as one ascends the axis of metaphysical idealism from outer joy to inner joy.

13. Whereas strength corresponds to good positive power in both personal volumetric volume and personal massed mass, as one descends the volume-mass axis from outer strength to inner strength, pride corresponds to virtuous positive glory in both personal sensual giving and personal sensible giving, as one descends the axis of chemical realism from outer pride to inner pride.

14. Whereas knowledge corresponds to foolish positive power in both personal massive mass and personal voluminous volume, as one ascends the mass-volume axis from outer knowledge to inner knowledge, pleasure corresponds to vicious positive glory in both personal sensual taking and personal sensible taking, as one ascends the axis of physical naturalism from outer pleasure to inner pleasure.