DOMINANCE (DOMINATIO) AND POWER (POTESTAS)
742. Metaphysical traditionality does not definitively reject anything in the world: no attributions, no affinities, no repulsion. It only rejects one thing: to let anything get out of control.
743. To be superior means to be freer, to be more complete, and to be more controlled, self-controlled; it means to be volitional with full consciousness.
744. The form of being that has lost sovereignty is heading for annihilation.
745. The more I loose myself, the more I am heading for annihilation.
746. In the long-run, all the contingencies, necessities and regularities can only expect lowering. This is so because all that is contingent, necessary and regular is neither voluntary, nor conscious and nor free.
747. The essence of cyclicity is not the alternation of descent and ascension as one would think of it. The question of sinking and rising is not an issue regarding cyclicity in itself. What is fundamental in cyclicity is whether I am subjected to it, or I dominate it; whether I am moved, or I am a mover. From a metaphysical point of view it does not make any difference whether a movement is heading upward or downward.
748. The cakravarti is not only the one »who sets the wheel rolling« but he is himself the wheel also.
[The word cakravarti literally means »he who sets rolling the wheel«.]
749. In most cases the common expression: »I do what I want« shows only that this situation is far from true. Men should rather say »I do what an opaque power in me, which can be experienced only via its marks but is undetectable in itself, wants me to do.«
750. It is the nature of every being to rebel against its ruler if the latter is weak. Lion counters its tamer if he is afraid of it, just as the demon counteracts the magus if the latter is weaker than the former.
751. Originally, it was volition that is now instinct in man.
752. All that is not in my power works against me.
[In the short run, this effect is not always obvious, but in the long run sooner or later it reveals itself inevitably.]
753. The loss of power entails the loss of everything.