CYCLE TWENTY-NINE: ELEMENTAL DISTINCTIONS

1. To contrast the barbarous element of fire (particularly in its metachemical manifestation) with the civilized element of water, further contrasting each of these objective elements with the natural element of vegetation and the cultural element of air, each of which has a subjective correlation.

2. Civility and, even in a narrow sense, civilization derives from and has associations with barbarity, no less than culture derives from and has associations with nature.

3. In general terms, fire is barbarous, water civilized, vegetation natural, and air cultural. This is because fire is noumenally objective in its subatomic correspondence to photons and/or photinos (the most basic elements/elementinos), water is phenomenally objective in its subatomic correspondence to electrons and/or electrinos (the least basic elements/elementinos), vegetation is phenomenally subjective in its subatomic correspondence to neutrons and/or neutrinos (the least advanced elements/elementinos), and air is noumenally subjective in its subatomic correspondence to protons and/or protinos (the most advanced elements/elementinos).

4. There is accordingly a materialistic connotation to barbarity, and hence fire; a realistic connotation to civility, and hence water; a naturalistic connotation to nature, and hence vegetation; and an idealistic connotation to culture, and hence air.

5. In particular terms, however, fire is divisible between the barbarity of photon and/or photino subatomic particles and the civility of photon and/or photino subatomic wavicles, the former corresponding to metachemical power and the latter to metachemical glory.

6. Likewise water is divisible, in particular terms, between the barbarity of electron and/or electrino (if conventional) or positron and/or positrino (if radical) subatomic particles and the civility of electron and/or electrino (if conventional) or positron and/or positrino (if radical) subatomic wavicles, the former corresponding to chemical power and the latter to chemical glory.

7. Hence the objective elements provide us with a contrast, in particular terms, between the power and the glory of barbarity and civility, the one corresponding to the particle aspects of both fire and water, the other corresponding to their wavicle aspects.

8. By contrast, vegetation is divisible, in particular terms, between the nature of neutron and/or neutrino (if conventional) or deuteron and/or deuterino (if radical) subatomic particles and the culture of neutron and/or neutrino (if conventional) or deuteron and/or deuterino (if radical) subatomic wavicles, the former corresponding to physical form and the latter to physical content.

9. Similarly, air is divisible, in particular terms, between the nature of proton and/or protino subatomic particles and the culture of proton and/or protino subatomic wavicles, the former corresponding to metaphysical form and the latter to metaphysical content.

10. Hence the subjective elements provide us with a contrast, in particular terms, between the form and the content of nature and culture, the one corresponding to the particle aspects of both vegetation and air, the other to their wavicle aspects.

11. Because fire is, in general terms, the barbarous element, there is more barbarity than civility to fire, and hence more beauty than love (when positive) or more ugliness than hatred (when negative).

12. Because water is, in general terms, the civilized element, there is more civility than barbarity to water, and hence more pride than strength (when positive) or more humility than weakness (when negative).

13. Consequently fire is, in general terms, vicious and water virtuous, albeit in relation to the objectivity and hence immorality of what, because of their disposition to diverge and/or converge on a rectilinear basis due to a vacuous precondition, are effectively female elements.

14. Because vegetation is, in general terms, the natural element, there is more nature than culture to vegetation, and hence more knowledge than pleasure (when positive) or more ignorance than pain (when negative).

15. Because air is, in general terms, the cultural element, there is more culture than nature to air, and hence more joy than truth (when positive) or more woe than falsity (when negative).

16. Consequently vegetation is, in general terms, vicious and air virtuous, albeit in relation to the subjectivity and hence morality of what, because of their disposition to diverge and/or converge on a curvilinear basis due to a plenumous precondition, are effectively male elements.

17. Thus one may contrast, in general terms, the immoral viciousness of barbarity with the immoral virtuousness of civility, further contrasting each of these objective factors with the moral viciousness of nature and the moral virtuousness of culture, each of which has a subjective correlation.

18. Barbarity is criminally cruel in its immoral viciousness, and hence fundamentally evil, whereas civility is punishingly just (apposite) in its immoral virtuousness, and hence humanistically good.

19. Nature is sinfully stupid in its moral viciousness, and hence nonconformistically foolish, whereas culture is gracefully kind in its moral virtuousness, and hence transcendentally wise.

20. Thus we may contrast the evil of barbarity with the goodness of civility on the female side of life, further contrasting the folly of nature with the wisdom of culture on its male side.

21. Yet there is a distinction, to repeat, between the barbarity of power and the civility of glory in both the metachemical and the chemical elements of fire and water.

22. Similarly, there is a distinction between the nature of form and the culture of content in both the physical and the metaphysical elements of vegetation and air.

23. Hence the association of power and glory with barbarity and civility is as incontrovertible as the association of form and content with nature and culture, the crucial difference being that whereas power and glory have reference to the particle/wavicle division of objective elements, form and content have reference to the particle/wavicle division of their subjective counterparts.