No one killed Christ
NO ONE KILLED CHRIST
An Argument From the Psychosemiotics of the Metaphysics of Consciousness Under Sign-use
It is time to sort out a few things about Christianity before it gets so corrupted by politics and pop culture as to become incommunicable.
The major point addressed here is the doctrine of baptism by emersion. Dating from the sixteenth century sect of Anabaptists, it is taught and practiced today mainly by Southern Baptists.
Argument: If John 3 is text, baptism by emersion is the (proper) token. (The study of psychosemiotics divides whatever communicates – a sign-use – into message and messenger, text and token.)
The token in any sign used to communicate a content of consciousness is the material embodiment of its message (the intention) – that which is said to ‘carry’, or ‘bear’ the textual content. Thus there are x number of tokens of the letter B in this paragraph (empirical datum x = a number got by counting them). The tokens are (roughly) identical in shape; the text “second letter of the English alphabet”, is supplied by reading it in context of other letters making words, given knowledge of the language.
The text read from tokens presupposes metal activity predicated on processes ‘higher’, in the sense of more inclusive than, those responsible for bare perception. Tokens can be perceived as shapes without being taken as text, as illustrated by ability to follow the instructions “count the B’s in the preceding paragraph”. As such, they belong to the field of empirical data through which we know external objects in space. This field, we know from the causal theory of perception, is inclusive of the field of phenomenal awareness, preceding perception of objects, even as it precedes taking tokens as text. The bottom-most field inclusive under the phenomenal is the neuro-psychical, the patterns of excitation (“cathexis”) of nerve endings in the brain that go over into conscious experience. The neuro-psychical, phenomenal and three-dimensional perceptual field constitute the lower triad of seven-tiered levels in the order of logical types of objects predicated on by use of signs. Text corresponds to predicates; tokens correspond to names predicated on, and the levels of logical types are predicates of predicates of ….exactly seven times; the seventh being both name and predicate (“God”: highest field of the upper triad).
John 3 is the text of rebirth experience as necessary for salvation, as Jesus tells Nicodemus. “Verily, verily I say unto you, no one can enter into the kingdom of heaven unless they are born again (New Revised Standard Version has “born from above”)” v. 3
Pressed for clarification, He doubles physical (level 1) and spiritual (upper triad levels) birth predications in this way: “That which is born of flesh is flesh and that which is born of spirit is spirit.” The rebirth spoken of in verse 3 is of the spirit, presupposing birth of the flesh. (This refutes the idea of spirit in fetuses – only in fantasy fetuses).
Emersion of one who calls on the name of Jesus as Christ for salvation of their soul (lower triad centre) symbolizes, by repeating, the rebirth text. What has been professed, with words of contrition, is explicitly acted out. The message (Christians call it “The Gospel”) that the Kingdom of Heaven can be entered by rebirth through belief in Him is “tripled”: the text, actualized in the upper triad by the profession of faith, is actualized on the token side by the act of going under the baptismal waters, representing death of the old man, and cleansing of sins; then emergence of the New Man in Christ, through faith. The third element, joining text and token, is the inner intention, actualized in the centers of both triads: redemption of soul in the body by the spirit being born in the mind. The fourth element (following the axiom of Maria) would be the transformation brought about in the moment all were brought together, This would re-enact, at the level of human history, the baptizing of Jesus by John the Baptist in the river Jordan, where it is recorded that the Spirit descended as a dove lighting on his shoulder and a Voice was hear declaring “This is my beloved son in whom I am well Pleased.”
“No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven,” Jesus says, verse 13, referring to himself. He brought the message, and he is the message; if those who believe would follow him, they would repeat, in their experience, what he included in His at the hands of John the Baptist. A replacement of John is where ministers of the Gospel come in: to bring the message, administer the sacraments, act as mid-wives for birth of the spirit in a soul. This One, the human mediator, is required as an external “fourth”, to meet and welcome the “fourth” brought forward on the token side of the other, as the newly born in Christ. It takes a very special answer to the call of the completing totality of consciousness – level 7, from which the Voice was heard from outside or beyond all – to assume such predications of oneself. More power to those can and do it right.
The matching of the two “fourths”, an internal and external for each person, creates an “eighth”; taken as notes in the octave of the seven tone scale, this is a repetition of the same note, as shown in music. The seven levels of logical type according to tokens may be taken as structurally and dynamically ordered as vibrations of sound.
What occurs on the token side (of private consciousness) when the message is heard?
The stirring of the spirit. Now it is known, thanks to the brilliant work of Lloyd deMause, that this can traced as a common content to the fetal origins of experience. Conscious existence in the womb is remembered after birth, he documents. The “struggle with sin” is, in later life, the mythic recall of unity with identical personal consciousness before birth and sexuality, a flashback of identity with the joyful, tumultuous, etc. states before, during and just after birth itself, which is always traumatic to various degrees. The mental act of confession is a cleansing of the sense of guilt separating the original state of innocence from later states.
An entirely inner dimension of unseen process in private tokenspace are actualized:
The alignment of the center of the upper triad, with 7 = God, 6 = Logos, 5 = “I” (oneself, as empirical ego) with the center of the lower triad, 3 = body, 2 = phenomenal, 1 = neuro-psychical, is by way of 4 = the baptismal act. Nothing could replace what it did; only repeat what it does.
The “Christ” in Jesus, as token human, is a projection of common fetal origins, in what is called “group fantasy”. Believers* in whom the Gospel message is repeated share this, on the inner side, according to Southern Baptists. The argument from John requires us to agree. However much others’ religions and ways may be respected, admired or venerated, all and only these can share completed Christian spiritual rebirth, becoming, brothers and sisters in Christ.
Not being material objects, protections cannot be killed. It is a category mistake in levels of sign-use to suppose it.
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Note on The Axiom of Maria: “One becomes two, two becomes three, and from the third comes the one as the fourth.” This is the formula for a unit of transformation. One would be the consciousness natural man in utero; Two would be the awareness of One, as if a memory-flashback (“one becomes two”); from this moment, carrying over into individualized perceptual field of spatial embodiment (“here, now, I”), the awareness of duality, “then” and “now”, text and token, takes form in the use of sign to communicate, which bring us to S*, for sign-plus-use, as the triad of triads (upper and lower). Actual assertion of judgment in common public token space, with spiritual resonance, would be the Fourth in this progression.
As a transformational unit algorithm this can also be compared with use of YHWH, as a similar one-to-four ordered series. This adds a dimension of consciousness to “God” as a name. +
An Argument From the Psychosemiotics of the Metaphysics of Consciousness Under Sign-use
It is time to sort out a few things about Christianity before it gets so corrupted by politics and pop culture as to become incommunicable.
The major point addressed here is the doctrine of baptism by emersion. Dating from the sixteenth century sect of Anabaptists, it is taught and practiced today mainly by Southern Baptists.
Argument: If John 3 is text, baptism by emersion is the (proper) token. (The study of psychosemiotics divides whatever communicates – a sign-use – into message and messenger, text and token.)
The token in any sign used to communicate a content of consciousness is the material embodiment of its message (the intention) – that which is said to ‘carry’, or ‘bear’ the textual content. Thus there are x number of tokens of the letter B in this paragraph (empirical datum x = a number got by counting them). The tokens are (roughly) identical in shape; the text “second letter of the English alphabet”, is supplied by reading it in context of other letters making words, given knowledge of the language.
The text read from tokens presupposes metal activity predicated on processes ‘higher’, in the sense of more inclusive than, those responsible for bare perception. Tokens can be perceived as shapes without being taken as text, as illustrated by ability to follow the instructions “count the B’s in the preceding paragraph”. As such, they belong to the field of empirical data through which we know external objects in space. This field, we know from the causal theory of perception, is inclusive of the field of phenomenal awareness, preceding perception of objects, even as it precedes taking tokens as text. The bottom-most field inclusive under the phenomenal is the neuro-psychical, the patterns of excitation (“cathexis”) of nerve endings in the brain that go over into conscious experience. The neuro-psychical, phenomenal and three-dimensional perceptual field constitute the lower triad of seven-tiered levels in the order of logical types of objects predicated on by use of signs. Text corresponds to predicates; tokens correspond to names predicated on, and the levels of logical types are predicates of predicates of ….exactly seven times; the seventh being both name and predicate (“God”: highest field of the upper triad).
John 3 is the text of rebirth experience as necessary for salvation, as Jesus tells Nicodemus. “Verily, verily I say unto you, no one can enter into the kingdom of heaven unless they are born again (New Revised Standard Version has “born from above”)” v. 3
Pressed for clarification, He doubles physical (level 1) and spiritual (upper triad levels) birth predications in this way: “That which is born of flesh is flesh and that which is born of spirit is spirit.” The rebirth spoken of in verse 3 is of the spirit, presupposing birth of the flesh. (This refutes the idea of spirit in fetuses – only in fantasy fetuses).
Emersion of one who calls on the name of Jesus as Christ for salvation of their soul (lower triad centre) symbolizes, by repeating, the rebirth text. What has been professed, with words of contrition, is explicitly acted out. The message (Christians call it “The Gospel”) that the Kingdom of Heaven can be entered by rebirth through belief in Him is “tripled”: the text, actualized in the upper triad by the profession of faith, is actualized on the token side by the act of going under the baptismal waters, representing death of the old man, and cleansing of sins; then emergence of the New Man in Christ, through faith. The third element, joining text and token, is the inner intention, actualized in the centers of both triads: redemption of soul in the body by the spirit being born in the mind. The fourth element (following the axiom of Maria) would be the transformation brought about in the moment all were brought together, This would re-enact, at the level of human history, the baptizing of Jesus by John the Baptist in the river Jordan, where it is recorded that the Spirit descended as a dove lighting on his shoulder and a Voice was hear declaring “This is my beloved son in whom I am well Pleased.”
“No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven,” Jesus says, verse 13, referring to himself. He brought the message, and he is the message; if those who believe would follow him, they would repeat, in their experience, what he included in His at the hands of John the Baptist. A replacement of John is where ministers of the Gospel come in: to bring the message, administer the sacraments, act as mid-wives for birth of the spirit in a soul. This One, the human mediator, is required as an external “fourth”, to meet and welcome the “fourth” brought forward on the token side of the other, as the newly born in Christ. It takes a very special answer to the call of the completing totality of consciousness – level 7, from which the Voice was heard from outside or beyond all – to assume such predications of oneself. More power to those can and do it right.
The matching of the two “fourths”, an internal and external for each person, creates an “eighth”; taken as notes in the octave of the seven tone scale, this is a repetition of the same note, as shown in music. The seven levels of logical type according to tokens may be taken as structurally and dynamically ordered as vibrations of sound.
What occurs on the token side (of private consciousness) when the message is heard?
The stirring of the spirit. Now it is known, thanks to the brilliant work of Lloyd deMause, that this can traced as a common content to the fetal origins of experience. Conscious existence in the womb is remembered after birth, he documents. The “struggle with sin” is, in later life, the mythic recall of unity with identical personal consciousness before birth and sexuality, a flashback of identity with the joyful, tumultuous, etc. states before, during and just after birth itself, which is always traumatic to various degrees. The mental act of confession is a cleansing of the sense of guilt separating the original state of innocence from later states.
An entirely inner dimension of unseen process in private tokenspace are actualized:
The alignment of the center of the upper triad, with 7 = God, 6 = Logos, 5 = “I” (oneself, as empirical ego) with the center of the lower triad, 3 = body, 2 = phenomenal, 1 = neuro-psychical, is by way of 4 = the baptismal act. Nothing could replace what it did; only repeat what it does.
The “Christ” in Jesus, as token human, is a projection of common fetal origins, in what is called “group fantasy”. Believers* in whom the Gospel message is repeated share this, on the inner side, according to Southern Baptists. The argument from John requires us to agree. However much others’ religions and ways may be respected, admired or venerated, all and only these can share completed Christian spiritual rebirth, becoming, brothers and sisters in Christ.
Not being material objects, protections cannot be killed. It is a category mistake in levels of sign-use to suppose it.
****/
Note on The Axiom of Maria: “One becomes two, two becomes three, and from the third comes the one as the fourth.” This is the formula for a unit of transformation. One would be the consciousness natural man in utero; Two would be the awareness of One, as if a memory-flashback (“one becomes two”); from this moment, carrying over into individualized perceptual field of spatial embodiment (“here, now, I”), the awareness of duality, “then” and “now”, text and token, takes form in the use of sign to communicate, which bring us to S*, for sign-plus-use, as the triad of triads (upper and lower). Actual assertion of judgment in common public token space, with spiritual resonance, would be the Fourth in this progression.
As a transformational unit algorithm this can also be compared with use of YHWH, as a similar one-to-four ordered series. This adds a dimension of consciousness to “God” as a name. +
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