Post by Merlyn Peter on Jan 13, 2014 21:15:38 GMT
Life as a context of resolution and dissolution.
Based upon Douglas Flemons’ book Completing Distinctions. This is Book 3 entitled incidentally, Solteriologic Garden and is unedited whilst I work on my recent stuff. Nevertheless I take an excerpt from it to give you an idea as to how to read the diagram.
COMPLETION \CONNECTION / Separation) = The Macrocosm
CONNECTION contextualizes separation. Imagine, you look at something complete and say, “If it weren’t for their separate parts I would not see their connectedness.” A top-down approach. Separation is just the disintegration of that. COMPLETION is an act of transcendence, CONNECTION is its active force, Separation the passive. To hold the two in an act of transcendence contextualizes them as a unit. One cannot see the connectedness of things if there is nothing to connect.
CONTRACTION /(SEPARATION \Connection) = The Microcosm
As above, (so below). SEPARATION contextualizes connection. Imagine, ‘look at an individual item taken out of something complete and say, “if it weren’t for these parts there would be nothing to disassemble.” A bottom-up approach. Connection is just its final product. CONTRACTION is an act of transcendence, SEPARATION its active force, Connection the passive.
Michael: Life equals…
Peter: Equivalent, that is the sign for equivalent.
Michael: Life is equivalent to pattern and scatter, and all its subdivisions.
Peter: It’s based on what we have been discussing but I have put it in mind-map form. Pattern is the active element, scatter the passive, according to human convention. This can be represented, including its subdivisions, in a number of examples. Here, for instance, the pattern is equated to a musical scale, the scatter to its individual notes. The whole map has a musical theme. Later I adapted it, as in this second example, to give the whole map a psychological theme. Pattern can now be considered as energy or spirit, scatter as matter and body. It is a conceptual framework remember, based upon Douglas Flemons’ book Completing Distinctions.
Michael: I see, not only do you have a context of resolution, but now you have a context of dissolution.
Peter: Because it derives from the scatter element, the passive element, no ego is involved. The ego is self-perpetuating; it feeds off the instinct. It will not dissolve itself, but it can be negated as I have said. Energy and spirit in this case is the context of resolution, the active element, since it coordinates structure, although that structure would not necessarily take human perceptual form, not yet anyway, until humanity discovers it and creates it in its own image.
Michael: Okay, I have enough to think about. I will catch up with you again on the subject.
And he left. Did he realize what he just said, “And I’ll catch up with you again.” Of course, humanity is always playing catch-up. ‘When next he comes’, thought Peter, ‘I will bring him into the garden.’
Based upon Douglas Flemons’ book Completing Distinctions. This is Book 3 entitled incidentally, Solteriologic Garden and is unedited whilst I work on my recent stuff. Nevertheless I take an excerpt from it to give you an idea as to how to read the diagram.
COMPLETION \CONNECTION / Separation) = The Macrocosm
CONNECTION contextualizes separation. Imagine, you look at something complete and say, “If it weren’t for their separate parts I would not see their connectedness.” A top-down approach. Separation is just the disintegration of that. COMPLETION is an act of transcendence, CONNECTION is its active force, Separation the passive. To hold the two in an act of transcendence contextualizes them as a unit. One cannot see the connectedness of things if there is nothing to connect.
CONTRACTION /(SEPARATION \Connection) = The Microcosm
As above, (so below). SEPARATION contextualizes connection. Imagine, ‘look at an individual item taken out of something complete and say, “if it weren’t for these parts there would be nothing to disassemble.” A bottom-up approach. Connection is just its final product. CONTRACTION is an act of transcendence, SEPARATION its active force, Connection the passive.
Michael: Life equals…
Peter: Equivalent, that is the sign for equivalent.
Michael: Life is equivalent to pattern and scatter, and all its subdivisions.
Peter: It’s based on what we have been discussing but I have put it in mind-map form. Pattern is the active element, scatter the passive, according to human convention. This can be represented, including its subdivisions, in a number of examples. Here, for instance, the pattern is equated to a musical scale, the scatter to its individual notes. The whole map has a musical theme. Later I adapted it, as in this second example, to give the whole map a psychological theme. Pattern can now be considered as energy or spirit, scatter as matter and body. It is a conceptual framework remember, based upon Douglas Flemons’ book Completing Distinctions.
Michael: I see, not only do you have a context of resolution, but now you have a context of dissolution.
Peter: Because it derives from the scatter element, the passive element, no ego is involved. The ego is self-perpetuating; it feeds off the instinct. It will not dissolve itself, but it can be negated as I have said. Energy and spirit in this case is the context of resolution, the active element, since it coordinates structure, although that structure would not necessarily take human perceptual form, not yet anyway, until humanity discovers it and creates it in its own image.
Michael: Okay, I have enough to think about. I will catch up with you again on the subject.
And he left. Did he realize what he just said, “And I’ll catch up with you again.” Of course, humanity is always playing catch-up. ‘When next he comes’, thought Peter, ‘I will bring him into the garden.’
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