36 BASE, SUPEHINCUMBING, INTEKPUNCT. 



level, the Analogue of the Foundation of the Build- 

 ing, and the Plumule or Ascending Sprout, \he Ana- 

 logue of the Superstructure. The Punctum Vitce of 

 the Edifice is the Altar or Fireplace, the Focus, which 

 is the Latin word for Fireplace. This is reached by 

 the Doorway or Entrance, which, situated at the 

 Earth's level, is externally representative of this in- 

 terposed point of Vitality and Movement. The 

 whole Figure, compounded of the Point and Line, 

 thus vitally and centrally conjoined by an Interposed 

 Vital Point, is the Inverted Man-shaped Figure or 

 Anthropoidule. (B. O. t. 881.). 



55. Foundation, Super incumbency, and their Copula- 

 tion, Interaction, or Interrelation, these Three combined 

 in a Totality and repeated in the Product, are, there- 

 fore, the Primal and Universal Type of All Being. 

 It is this Primitive Distribution which is here gen- 

 eralized and formulated under the terms, NATURE, 

 SCIENCE, and ART, as the Constituent Aspects or Do- 

 mains of Universal Being and Evolution. They are 

 not, therefore, merely Facts of Observation, but Es- 

 sentially Necessary and Primitive Discriminations. 



56. Nature is Feminine, the Mother Principle, the 

 teeming Womb or Matrix of Being. Science, identi- 

 fied with Law, with Abstract Thought, with Form, 

 with Phenomena, with the Bays of Light, with Re- 

 flection, and so with Universal Intelligence or Mind, 

 with Man Male, and with God, the Paternal or Im- 

 pregnating Principle, is Masculine ; Art, echoing to 

 the Sexes in their mutual embrace, Interpenetration, 

 Correlative Impregnation, and Conception, and the 



