76. It is
only in the subordinate state that the gender aspect of things is turned upside
down, so that, even though still having a somatic dimension, whether
pseudo-evil or pseudo-good, realist or antimaterialist,
it will be the psychic dimension which, whether pseudo-criminal or
pseudo-punishing, nonconformist or antifundamentalist, counts for more and is
an important factor in the undermining of what would otherwise more properly
characterize the State.
77. Likewise
it is only in the subordinate church that the gender aspect of things is turned
upside down, so that, even though still having a psychic dimension, whether
pseudo-sinful or pseudo-graceful, antitranscendentalist
or humanist, it will be the somatic dimension which, whether pseudo-foolish or
pseudo-wise, anti-idealist or naturalist, counts for more and is an important
factor in the undermining of what would otherwise more properly characterize
the Church.
78. For
whereas the subverted state becomes identified with nonconformist and
antifundamentalist modes of psychic existence to the detriment of what is
somatic, the subverted church becomes identifiable with anti-idealist and
naturalist modes of somatic existence to the detriment of what is psychic, and even
here one can infer an ecclesiastic/secular dichotomy which underlines the
contrary fashions in which these institutions are undermined and, through
subversion, rendered subordinate.
79. Frankly
the subordinate state is as far from becoming primarily realist (phenomenal) or
antimaterialist (noumenal)
as the subordinate church from becoming primarily antitranscendentalist
(noumenal) or humanist (phenomenal). For just as realism would be a threat to antinaturalism, and hence by extrapolation to antihumanism, and antimaterialism
a threat to idealism, and hence by extrapolation to transcendentalism, so antitranscendentalism would be a threat to fundamentalism,
and hence by extrapolation to materialism, and humanism a threat to antinonconformism, and hence by extrapolation to
antirealism.
80. Obviously,
a church-hegemonic society can no more countenance a threat to antinaturalism or idealism than a state-hegemonic society a
threat to fundamentalism or antinonconformism, for in
the one case antinaturalism and idealism are the
somatic corollaries of antihumanism and
transcendentalism, whilst, in the other case, fundamentalism and antinonconformism are the psychic corollaries of
materialism and antirealism, and just as antihumanism
and transcendentalism bring us back to sin and grace as the principal
characteristics, in bound psyche and free psyche, of a church-hegemonic
society, so materialism and antirealism return us to evil and good as the
principal characteristics, in free soma and bound soma, of a state-hegemonic
society.
81. Only
sin and grace are authentically beyond evil and good respectively, as psyche is
beyond soma and the church beyond the state, and as sin and grace are beyond
good and evil, so folly and wisdom are beyond crime and punishment; for the
folly and wisdom that are authentic corollaries of sin and grace can only exist
in relation to the pseudo-evil and pseudo-good that are inauthentic corollaries
of pseudo-crime and pseudo-punishment, and neither pseudo-evil nor pseudo-good
has anything more in common with evil or good than pseudo-crime and
pseudo-punishment anything in common with crime and punishment.
82. In
short, the society that gives soma free metachemical
rein is fated to bow before the state-hegemonic realities of evil and good to
which crime and punishment are psychically affiliated, and evil must fear
goodness as crime fears punishment.
83. But
the society that gives psyche free metaphysical rein is destined to kneel
before the church-hegemonic realities of sin and grace to which folly and
wisdom are somatically affiliated, and sin must hope for grace as folly hopes
for wisdom.
84. With
the fear of good and punishment there can be no hope for grace and wisdom; for
all that exists in relation to good and punishment is pseudo-wisdom and
pseudo-grace, which are anything but compatible with or equivalent to authentic
grace and wisdom.
85. Conversely,
with the hope of grace and wisdom there can be no fear of good and punishment;
for all that exists in relation to grace and wisdom is pseudo-punishment and
pseudo-goodness, which are anything but compatible with or equivalent to
authentic goodness and punishment.
86. In the one context, the descending axis, 'the above' fears
'the below', the Few the Many, the evil/criminal the good/punishing, whereas in
the other context, the ascending axis, 'the below' hopes for 'the above', the
Many the Few, the sinful/foolish the graceful/wise. No greater contrast could be imagined!
87. Therefore
whilst in the former context the Few will do their best to resist the
regressive proclivities of the Many, in the latter context, by contrast, the
Many will try their best to embrace the progressive proclivities of the Few, so
that, to take both contexts together, a resistance to being pulled down, or punished,
from 'below' has to be contrasted with an insistence on being pulled up, or
saved, from 'above' - all the difference between the descending axis of
state-hegemonic criteria and the ascending axis of church-hegemonic criteria.
88. For
what is the inner phenomenal darkness of goodness to those for whom the outer noumenal darkness of evil is somatic ideal but something to
fear as a threat to metachemical freedom, even with
the inner phenomenal light of punishment which, however, can only be less
significant from a state-hegemonic point of view, not least from the standpoint
of the outer noumenal light of crime.
89. And
what, correlatively, is the inner phenomenal darkness of pseudo-wisdom to those
for whom the outer noumenal darkness of pseudo-folly is
perforce somatic ideal but something to fear as a threat to antimetaphysical
freedom, even with the inner phenomenal light of pseudo-grace which, however,
can only be less significant from a church-subordinate point of view, not least
from the standpoint of the outer noumenal light of
pseudo-sin.
90. But
what, conversely, is the inner noumenal light of
grace to those for whom the outer phenomenal light of sin is psychic shame but
something to hope for as a solution to antiphysical
binding, even with the inner noumenal darkness of
wisdom which, however, can only be less significant from a church-hegemonic
point of view, though not necessarily from the standpoint of the outer
phenomenal darkness of folly.
91. And
what, correlatively, is the inner noumenal light of
pseudo-punishment to those for whom the outer phenomenal light of pseudo-crime
is perforce psychic shame but something to hope for as a solution to chemical
binding, even with the inner noumenal darkness of
pseudo-goodness which, however, can only be less significant from a
state-subordinate point of view, though not necessarily from the standpoint of
the outer phenomenal darkness of pseudo-evil.
92. However
that may variously be, there is a marked contrast between a conservative fear
of the Many primarily from an evil/criminal point of view, and a conservative
hope for the Few primarily from a sinful/foolish point of view, a metachemical fear of antichemical
goodness/punishment on the one hand, that of the descending axis of
state-hegemonic criteria, and an antiphysical hope
for metaphysical grace/wisdom on the other hand, that of the ascending axis of
church-hegemonic criteria.
93. In
the former case, that of the metachemical Few ranged
subversively above the antimetaphysical Few, fear of
the antichemical Many ranged subversively beneath the
physical Many is designed to protect the evil/criminal coupled to
pseudo-foolish/sinful interests of the noumenal
elites from the good/punishing coupled to pseudo-wise/graceful ambitions of the
phenomenal generalities, whose existence, paradoxically, is conditional upon
the prior and superior existence of the noumenal
elites and is symptomatic of a radical regression down the descending axis of
state-hegemonic and church-subordinate criteria from evil and pseudo-folly in
somatic freedom to goodness and pseudo-wisdom in somatic binding, and is
therefore something to be resisted from the socially superior standpoints of
the freedoms in question.
94. In
the latter case, that of the antiphysical Many ranged
subversively beneath the chemical Many, hope for the metaphysical Few ranged
subversively above the antimetachemical Few is
designed to undermine the sinful/foolish coupled to pseudo-criminal/evil
shortcomings of the phenomenal generalities in favour of the graceful/wise
coupled to pseudo-punishing/good interests of the noumenal
elites, whose existence is conditional upon the prior and inferior existence of
the phenomenal generalities and is symptomatic of a radical progression up the
ascending axis of church-hegemonic and state-subordinate criteria from sin and
pseudo-crime in psychic binding to grace and pseudo-punishment in psychic
freedom, and is therefore something to be embraced from the socially inferior
standpoints of the bindings in question.
95. Just
as surely as goodness and pseudo-wisdom must condemn the 'somatically free' to
the damnation of somatic binding within a context, an axis, characterized by
state-hegemonic criteria, so must grace and pseudo-punishment deliver the
'psychically bound' to the salvation of psychic freedom within a context, an
axis, characterized by church-hegemonic criteria.
96. Therefore
the 'somatically free', typified by evil and pseudo-folly in metachemical and antimetaphysical
sensuality, will resist the pull or threat of the 'somatically bound', typified
by goodness and pseudo-wisdom in antichemical and
physical sensibility, as the noumenal Few of
state-hegemonic and church-subordinate criteria will resist the phenomenal Many
of state-hegemonic and church-subordinate criteria in defence of their own
elitist ideals of somatic freedom in evil and pseudo-folly.
97. Therefore
the 'psychically bound', typified by sin and pseudo-crime in antiphysical and chemical sensuality, will embrace the
promise of the 'psychically free', typified by grace and pseudo-punishment in
metaphysical and antimetachemical sensibility, as the
phenomenal Many of church-hegemonic and state-subordinate criteria will embrace
the noumenal Few of church-hegemonic and
state-subordinate criteria in pursuance of the latter's elitist ideals of
psychic freedom in grace and pseudo-punishment.
98. How
significant it therefore is whether soma or psyche is the principal factor at
stake in any given context, be it state hegemonic or church hegemonic, in
determining the divergent course of events which must constantly and
permanently unfold in relation to either axis - descending in soma from evil to
good under a female hegemony or ascending in psyche from sin to grace under a
male hegemony; for whilst it is the fate of the Few in the former axis to
resist the Many, to reject the descent from somatic freedom to somatic binding,
which enslaves from evil to the damnation of authentic goodness, it is the
destiny, by contrast, of the Many in the latter axis to embrace the Few, to
climb from psychic binding to psychic freedom, wherein they achieve liberation
from sin in the salvation of authentic grace.
99. Quite
frankly, goodness exists in the shadow of evil, as immoral virtue in the shadow
of immoral vice, for it is symptomatic of a regression from the high ideal of
somatic freedom to the low ordeal of somatic binding, the psychic corollary of
which is of course punishment.
100. In
complete contrast, grace exists in the light of sin, as moral virtue in the
light of moral vice, for it is symptomatic of a progression from the low ordeal
of psychic binding to the high ideal of psychic freedom, the somatic corollary
of which is of course wisdom.