CYCLE FORTY-TWO: PRIMAL AND SUPREME (REVISITED)

1. The imperfect glory of love results from the perfect power of beauty, whereas the imperfect power of strength leads to the perfect glory of pride.

2. The imperfect antiglory of hatred results from the perfect antipower of ugliness, whereas the imperfect antipower of weakness leads to the perfect antiglory of humility (if not humiliation).

3. The imperfect content of pleasure results from the perfect form of knowledge, whereas the imperfect form of truth leads to the perfect content of joy.

4. The imperfect anticontent of pain results from the perfect antiform of ignorance, whereas the imperfect antiform of falsity (delusion) leads to the perfect anticontent of woe.

5. Evil is the woman, necessarily noumenal in supreme terms, who is more barbarous than civilized, more Devil than Hell, since hers is the perfect power, but good is the woman, necessarily phenomenal in supreme terms, who is more civilized than barbarous, more purgatory than angel, since hers is the perfect glory.

6. Anti-evil is the antiwoman, necessarily noumenal in primal terms, who is more antibarbarous than anticivilized, more Antidevil than Antihell, since hers is the perfect antipower, but antigood is the antiwoman, necessarily phenomenal in primal terms, who is more anticivilized than antibarbarous, more antipurgatory than anti-angel, since hers is the perfect antiglory.

7. Foolish is the man, necessarily phenomenal in supreme terms, who is more natural than cultural, more daemon than earth, since his is the perfect form, but wise is the man, necessarily noumenal in supreme terms, who is more cultural than natural, more Heaven than God, since his is the perfect content(ment).

8. Antifoolish is the man, necessarily phenomenal in primal terms, who is more antinatural than anticultural, more antidaemon than anti-earth, since his is the perfect antiform, but antiwise is the antiman, necessarily noumenal in primal terms, who is more anticultural than antinatural, more Antiheaven than Antigod, since his is the perfect anticontent(ment).

9. Supremacy appertains to the universal (if noumenal) and to the personal (if phenomenal), whereas primacy appertains to the cosmic (if noumenal) and to the geologic (if phenomenal).

10. Hence we must distinguish between the negativity of primacy and the positivity of supremacy in relation, in each case, to both sensuality and sensibility, the 'once born' and the 'reborn', the outer and the inner contexts.

11. Hence primal doing stands negatively apart from supreme doing, as ugliness and hatred from beauty and love, while 'down below', on the phenomenal planes (of volume and mass), primal giving stands negatively apart from supreme giving, as weakness and humility from strength and pride.

12. Likewise, primal taking stands negatively apart from supreme taking, as ignorance and pain from knowledge and pleasure, whilst 'up above', on the noumenal planes (of time and space), primal being stands negatively apart from supreme being, as falsity and woe from truth and joy.