My Friend:

In this letter I would like to present you with your first in-depth look at a multilevelate reality concept. The topic is unities. The perspective is heterolevelate.

Visualizing Heterolevelate Unities

Human beings--and all things and beings--inhabit a cosmic ocean of laws, properties, and relationships. The universally enveloping fluid which sustains us is invisible to our eyes and--because of its nearness--is invisible to our otherwise normally questing minds. Of all the currents upon which wafts the human condition, none is more important and less recognized than unities, which carve out the shape, substance, and situations of reality itself.

A unity is the supersummative reality joining of multiple unitants. I have introduced you to some of the significance of this as seen in the plane of the unity--synergistic effects, for example, and unitantial harmony. But it is time now to add a third dimension to your understanding of unities. From this point onward, the word, unity, unless otherwise qualified, shall refer to the heterolevelate model.

Figure 4-1 shows a heterolevelate unity. The vertical hourglass shape comprises the unital walls, and the three horizontal planes--one bounding it at its base and one at its zenith, with a third bisecting its waist--are the subunital planes. The intersection of each subunital plane with the unital walls is an individual subunital circle. Together, unital walls, subunital planes, and subunital circles form the unital envelope.

A unity possesses different multiplicities, depending on how you look at it. To deal with this aspect of its nature, I have separated a unity's different multiplicities from one another in the schematic visualization of Figure 4-1. Each multiplicity is vertically removed from the others and occupies its own subunital plane. There is only one unity shown in Figure 4-1; the three planes represent three different ways of looking at the whole unity. Each is valid as a description of the unity.

The bottom plane is called the protoplane, and the subunital circle in it is the protocircle. The center plane and circle are the synthoplane and the synthocircle. And the top plane and circle are the versoplane and the versocircle. Within and between these planar regions of the unity vibrates the mysterious magic that brings forth and sustains structures and relationships. Here in this graphic model is hidden the knowledge that can open to our understanding the intimate yet elusive laws that govern families, planets, galaxies, friendships--everything.

Only the most committed searcher can acquire this knowledge. For an unseen dragon guards these secrets, veiling them in intellectual invisibility by casting dust over them, making them seem to be self-evident or in some other way inappropriate for investigation. You stand at the juncture where new words and concepts will begin to flow. It is up to you at this time to decide if you will study them and learn them or seek other pursuits.

None of the components of the unity that I have thus far described to you are realities. The unital envelope is only an ideational template to superimpose over the realities of a unity in order to understand the relationships involved. In Figure 4-1, the actual unital realities are shown as small beads, lying in the subunital planes, gathered on the periphery of or at the center of the subunital circles. These, the realities of the unity, are called unitons. More specifically, they are named prototons, synthoton, or versotons as they occur in the protoplane, synthoplane, or versoplane, respectively, of the unity. The total unitonic populace of a given subunital plane can be referred to as planotons or, collectively, as the planate--a plural term.

Geography of a Unity

The protoplane is the anteroom of the unity. Its planotons, the prototons, are the unitants of the unity. Each prototon is an individual reality in its totality, unrestricted to funtion in the unity. As an example, consider an orchestra as a unity. Its prototons, occupying the orchestral protoplane, are the persons--not musicians--who join to form the orchestra. These persons are the sponsors of the unity. Musician is just one aspect of a person, a unital role assumed high in the interior of the unity.

A person or object is a whole reality. In unities, whole, indivisible realities join together--but only thread together certain aspects of themselves. This process, called interlinking, preserves individual identities yet strengthens oneness, like a carpenter's dovetail joint. Two hands with intertwined fingers are interlinked. A unity's prototons are interlinks, but not as prototons--rather, as versotons.

A unity, since it is multiple realities as one, is more properly called a multiunity. A multiunity is a biunity, triunity, quadunity, or quinunity as its prototons number two, three, four, or five, respectively. Multiplicity is an attribute of the planotons--of the planate--of a given subunital plane and is a number that is equal to the total number of planotons occupying that plane. Submultiplicity, or cardinality, is the corresponding attribute of the subunital plane which holds the planotons. A population of five planotons, for example, possesses a multiplicity of five. The subunital plane that holds them has a cardinality of five.

Planotons whose total population numbers one, two, three, four, five, six, or seven are known, respectively, as unons, bions, trions, quadrons, quintons, sextons, or septons. Occurateness is an attribute which specifies whether a reality is singular or plural. The occurateness of the prototons is always plural; in other words, the cardinality of the protoplane is always greater than one. The synthotonic occurateness is singular that is, the synthotonic multiplicity is one. The synthoton, therefore, visualizable as the beadlike synthocircle, is always a unon. The versotons are always plurally occurate, possessing the greatest multiplicity in the unity. The versotonic multiplicity is a number equal to the number of possible combinations of prototons taken in groups of every size possible from the original group of prototons. This is specified in the versotonic multiplicity formula, as follows: the number of versotons in a unity is 2-to-the-n minus one, where n is the multiplicity of the prototons.

Thus, as you can see, each of the three subunital planes holds for our inspection a separate aspect of multiplicity (and, as we shall see, of other attributes) of the unity. The cardinality, or submultiplicity, of an entire unity is a vector--three numbers separated by colons, which represent, in sequence: the prototonic, synthotonic, and versotonic multiplicity. A unity with four prototons--a quadunity--is composed of one synthoton and 2-to-the-fourth minus one, or 15, versotons. A quadunity's submultiplicity is thus 4:1:15. Its prototons are quadrons, its synthoton a unon, and its versotons femtotons.

A versoton is a monotron or multitron as it is the projection of one or more than one prototon, respectively, into the versoplane. A multitron is a duotron, treotron, quadrotron, or quintotron as it involves two, three, four, or five prototons, respectively. Monotrons, duotrons, treotrons, quadrotrons, and quintotrons are also known, respectively, as primary, secondary, tertiary, quadranary, and quinary versotons. Regardless of the number of unitants in a unity, the unique versoton in the unity that is the versotonic projection of all of the unitants as one is called, in addition to its multitronic title, the sumotron and is located at the center of the versocircle.

The prototons occupy only the protoplane. But they also inhabit the synthoplane--not as the prototons but as the synthoton. This phenomenon of the presence of a reality or realities moving up or down into two or more different encompassing phases, or levelates, and existing simultaneously as these variegated parts, is called translevelence. The plural prototons do not cease existing in order to be the singular synthoton. In the protoplane, each prototon continues to exist as a separate, individual reality.

Though a unity always possesses more than one aspect of multiplicity, we refer to the unity grammatically as if we were addressing its synthoton, which has a multiplicity of one. We call a unity, therefore, a unity, not unities. It, not them.

Consider, if you will, how the funnelling walls of the unity direct vertical changes in multiplicity between the realities of the individual horizontal subunital planes. As one ascends in concept the subunital planes, the prototonic plurality of the protoplane contracts, as if under a gravitative force. In the synthoplane, the occurateness snaps into the singularity of the synthoton. And above, beyond the synthotonic needle's eye, the occurateness expands, as if under the urging of a radiative force, becoming plural again in the versoplane. For this reason, the prototons are alternately called gravitons and the versotons radions, while the synthoton, located at the point of occurative reversal, is also called the stabilon, or metoton.

A primalate is a reality in the primordial line of some other reality which, in turn, is known as the finalate of the primalate. Relatively speaking, the primalate is a source reality and the finalate its derivative reality. Primalate and finalate are not related in a temporal sense--as ancestor and descendant--but rather in a structural sense. A thread is the primalate of the rope into which it is woven; the rope is a finalate of the thread from which it is woven. In a unity, the finalateward direction--as we visualize it in our schematic representation--is upward. Primalateward is downward.

The prototons are primalates of both the synthoton and the versotons. The synthoton is a finalate of the prototons. The prototons are present as the versotons, since they are primalates of the versotons. But they are not direct primalates of the versotons: the synthoton intervenes. Through translevelence, the prototons are the versotons, as is also the synthoton. And the prototons are the synthoton.

Subunital Statics and Dynamics

The prototons are the unity's original diversity. Not restricted to unital function, each is a whole entity that may participate simultaneously in numerous unities. I, for example, am a whole, indivisible person and can be a prototon in a family, a nation, and other unities, all simultaneously.

The synthoton is the commitment of the unitants to the unity. It is the unity's oneness.

The versotons are the prototons as projected into the versotonic plane, restricted to roles in the unity. At this levelate are the musicians, the husband and wife, mother and daughter, lover and beloved.

The synthoton is existential in nature in that it either exists or does not exist. Little more can be said about it. Thus the synthoplane is an existential plane and is called the existum, the synthoton being called the existon.

The prototons, antecedent to the synthoton in the ascending realitization of the unity, are thus the pre-existons and the protoplane is the pre-existum. The versoplane, however, is experiential in nature. Here the projections of the prototons in specialized function, singly and in combination, learn limitations and capabilities and develop working relationships. The versoplane is thus the experium, and the versotons are the experions.

Let us apply these insights to a specific example. Consider, if you will, a family of three persons. This is a unity specifically, a triunity. The prototons are: a man, a woman, and a boy. In their wholenesses as individual human beings, they respond to an unseen unifying influence perceptible to them as love and commit themselves to mutual oneness. Their commitment is the existential unon, in the synthoplane, which exists the moment their decision is made.

The commitment exists in the existum--the synthoplane. The unitants, the diverse, responsive material of the unity, exist in the pre-existum--the protoplane. But the ongoing work goes on in the experium--the versoplane. The triunital versoplane holds seven versotons: three primary versotons, three secondary versotons, and one tertiary versoton, the sumotron.

In the experium, lessons are learned. Among the seven experions in the experium of the example family triunity, the three monotrons are: patriarch, matriarch, and child. The duotron composed of patriarch and matriarch as one is husband-wife. Patriarch and child as one are father-son. Matriarch and child as one are mother-son. The sumotronic treotron, composed of patriarch, matriarch, and child as one, is family.

The patriarchal monotron is the man as he is carrying out his part for the family apart from the other members of the unity--for example, as he provides sustenance for the family members through employment. Similarly for the other two monotrons.

Each duotron is the working relationship of two monotrons. A strong development of duotrons does not imply the strong development of the treotron--the family. Working relationships beyond duotrons must develop. For example, each of the three duotrons in the family may function as harmonious manifestations of a different possible pair of family members. But no matter how well the father might interact with the son or the mother with the son, the husband-wife duotron, for example, when in the presence of the child, could possibly manifest some factor--love of mate, for example--in a form sweeping aside the needs of the child.

I would like to share with you at this time a wonderful insight into personal relationships that emerges from the unity model. In committing themselves to mutual unity, persons thereby instantly--timelessly--become one. But this existential oneness, the synthoton, is not a manifest reality. Its projection as the versate must evolve experientially. So you see that you should never be discouraged by procedural disharmony in a developing relationship of unity. No matter how ardent the commitment, unities must actualize experientially in the versoplane, a place of ongoing development where rough edges of interpersonal inexperience are smoothed to roundness through living experience. Only thus does the sheen of harmonious unity come to imbue and overspread the interaction of mutually committed individuals.