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This is an attempt to extend conversations begun over many years into the present, applying results of work in between to gain analytic method, continuity, scope, depth, vivacity and permanence

Saturday, November 26, 2005

What Jung Hath Joined Together...

WHAT JUNG HATH JOINED TOGETHER ….

YHWH

The Tetragrammaton is a sign-use for the completing totality. That is why it is primogenitor of unity in TokenSpace (number: 50), the Name of the universe under a single intellect or Mind.

The shape of the Arabic numeral 4 is a token of the completing totality. The Axiom of Maria is the text of this as a process: “One becomes two, two becomes three, and our of the Third comes the One as the Fourth.” These two overlap, text onto token, if the four is arrived at by connecting the four points on its figure in sequence: vertically, from bottom (one) to top (two); diagonal left-down (three) horizontally to the right. This encloses a unit of space at top-left, opens out onto the externally containing unit as its fitting or ‘suggested’ completion (by adding a line lower-right, matching the upper with a lower triad). The addition of such a line would also convert the seven points defining angles (ABC for bottom, top, left point; DEFG for the four inner and outer 90 degree angels at the intersection). Thus the transition from 3 to 4 is repeated in the transition from 7 to 8, according to the Junginan – or shall we say Mercurial? – juxtaposition from alchemical texts: “I have shown in Psychology and Alchemy , with the help of a modern dream, that whereas the seven form an uninterrupted series, the step to the eighth involves hesitation or uncertainty and is a repetition of the same phenomenon that occurs with three and four (the Axiom of Maria).” (Mysteriurm Conjunctionis, p,574)

As just shown in the above correlations, this is ‘pictured’ by the 4 shape, combining the seven letters of the angle-points (7) with the unity of the original process (1), to achieve a new totality – a fourth (4) and eighth (8) as manifested result of its completion.

Use of letters sprinkled into the 4 shape connect it, token wise, with the standard designation of notes on the octave of the 7 toned scale. The eighth note is a repetition of the first, in sound-wave vibrations, just as the half-step transition from c-d, as 3 to 4, (mi to fa on the piano) is repeated by the half-step from ti-do (7 to 8). The design of the eighth numeral, one notes, is a double enclosure; the two 4’s suggested above, also got by flipping 4 over left-right and up-side down, as if conjoined with its mirror image. Also, the symbol 8 , turned vertically over on its side, gets taken up in mathematical use for invinity. (Along with use of “Aleph^null” for the null set in set-theory; but leave this aside.) When Pythagoras observed that the ratio of lengths for identical octave notes was exactly ½ length of plucked chord, and the 3rd and 5th harmonic intervals by whole-number fractions, this entwined objective knowledge in the construction of the tokens of sign-use. It has been Gurdjieff, solely, to my knowledge, who among metaphysicians has linked the half-step between mi-fa, ti-do with the completion of durational existence per se. Jung’s linking of YHWH, the Axiom of Maria, and alchemical transformation, appears to be the elaboration of the same system from different perspectives: number, alphabet, sound waves, dynamics of transformation, the unfolding of an entity’s existence in time.. “The same system” would connect the pre-textual unity of consciousness, given through the body, to its completion under sign-use (or for as far as sign-use can take it).

RETURNING TO GOD

Understanding 4 as a created unit in TokenSpace; finding that it corresponds to the number of characters in the Tetragrammaton, aka Hebrew spelling of the word for “God”; understanding that predication on a term in English grammar (as on “God” by theologians, philosophers) is the mark of assuming the existence of whatever the term is used to stand for (= mean, in the textualist sense), it now advances application of this system to note what the letter ‘yod’, ‘he’, ‘vau’, ‘he’ communicate as tokens. Fortunately, again Carl Jung has done the work of pulling relevant original sources together.

“YOD (pictured as a strongly accented apostrophe), because it is simple, is something single and primary, and like the number ‘1’ which among numbers and as a point, is the first of all bodies. But the point by moving along its length produces the line, namely VAU. …The letter YOD , because it is a point, is made the beginning, middle and the end; indeed, it is also the beginning of the Decad (it is the 10th letter in the usual ordering) and the end of unities and therefore it returns to the One.”

YOD is also associated with light. “When the Wisdom of the Blessed One saw that even in this splendour the worlds could not be manifested, since the Light was still to weak there, he again signaled to this the letter yod that it should descend and break through the sphere of splendour and give forth its light, which was a little denser.” Comment: This would be the boost in reproductive processes on earth brought first, by the Adam, viewed as a being of light; then, second, by the Christ. The “little bit denser” light would go over anatomically into Love.

“ VAU denotes life, which is the emanation and movement of the essence that is manifested in it. And it is the medium of union and connection between the essence and the understanding.” Comment: the essence would be the material triad of One and Two, consciousness (One) in Mind and Body (Two). “Understanding” posits a content wholly contained in consciousness under the signs used for communicating it; that is, in Mind. Understanding is a product of sign-use in Mind (the upper triad). The VAU –step in the Tetragammaton is the Third, and according to the Axiom of Maria is arrived at from the Two, but having in it the One that manifests as the Fourth. The understanding as Third is arrived at by “return to itself” of the One in the Two. This would be thought, as product of Mind, returning to its ground of unity (consciousness), after having discovered itself also in the Body (lower triad).

“He denotes Being (feminine in form and function) which is composed of essence and existence.” “The last He is the image of the intellect or mind.”

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With these understandings, now, a great and profound situation dawns. The hesitation between 3 and 4 is about whether “God’ is completed under the Masculine form, the Trinity, of YOD-He-VAU-He, where the first and second He are identical; or under the Quaternity, in which the second He is distinct (though still feminine).

The Greek Goddess Athena, one recalls, sprang from the brow of Zeus fully formed. She was created by the ray emanating from the feminine side of the Father’s head.

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