My Friend:

In this letter I would like to introduce you to the multilevelate reality concept of heterolevelate triates.

Based upon the foundation of the first five letters, my next letter to you will then apply the multilevelate reality perspective presented in these letters to some specific applications; namely, to trinities, Deity, transcendence, and immanence. Increasingly now, we will turn your developing multilevelate reality insights to things around you.

From Unity to Triate

To advance from an understanding of homolevelate triates and heterolevelate unities to a grasp of heterolevelate triates is a relatively easy step. One has only to stretch the planar anatomy of the homolevelate triate over the three-dimensional framework of the heterolevelate unity. Before you and I do this, I would like to expand an already familiar concept and also introduce a few terms.

In my last letter to you, I introduced the concept of a heterolevelate unity's multiplicity but neglected to mention that this quantity should always be written inside a single pair of parentheses. For example, the multiplicity of a triunity should be shown as (3:1:7).

Turning to new terms, identivity is an attribute that specifies whether a reality is a singlate or a plurate. A singlate is a reality considered as a single structurate. In the statement, "the orchestra was in good form," orchestra symbolizes a singlate. A plurate is a reality considered as multiple individual realities. In "the players were all present," players signifies a plurate.

Singlo and pluro, prefixes, designate the attribute of singlateness and plurateness, respectively. "Singloteam," for example, refers to a team as a singlatic whole, as in "the singloteam is a harmonious whole." "Pluroteam," on the other hand, designates the plural, individual members of the team, as in "the pluroteam held their heads high."

Mutality specifies whether a reality is pre-existential, existential, or experiential. Versotons mutalize as experiential, while prototons are pre-existentially mutalic.

Sum and term, prefixes, mean all of and less than all of, respectively. In an orchestra, the sumplayers is a singlatic or pluratic grouping that includes all of the members of the orchestra. In the same orchestra, termplayers is a singlatic or pluratic grouping that includes any number of, but not all of, the members of the orchestra. To be identivically specific in these two examples, we could refer to the one singlosumplayers. Or we could specify some or all of the plurosumplayers. Similarly, with regard to a particular set of termplayers, we could refer to the one singlotermplayers or, alternately, to some or all of the plurotermplayers.

If team, rather than player, were our working word, we could refer to the singloteam that is, to the team as a whole. Or we could refer to the pluroteam, meaning the team as a plurality of members. We could also bring the prefixes sum and term to bear.

Equipped with these new terms, let us now turn to the heterolevelate triate model. From now on, unless specified otherwise, the term, triate, shall refer to a heterolevelate triate.

A triate is a special kind of triunity.

All of the things that you have learned about unities apply to triates. In addition, new properties arise in any triunity that is a triate. This is so because the triunital unitons, or triunitons--which we can also call triatons in the case of a triate--are a triatal focalate, diffluate, and multiate, themselves possessed of specialized attributes and so lending new properties to their overate mechanism, the triate.

The focalate and the diffluate each is the same in the heterolevelate triate model as in the homolevelate triate model: a central pattern and a diffuse influence through which the pattern is manifest, respectively. And each is identive as a singlate--a singular reality. But the multiates in the two triate models, over which the diffluate manifests its influence, differ from each other. The homolevelate multiate is a singlate, while the heterolevelate multiate is a plurate. That is, in a homolevelate triate, multiate is a singular term, while in a heterolevelate triate, multiate is a plural term signifying the multiple multiatons. Grammatically (and only grammatically), the pluratic heterolevelate multiate is handled as a singlate, being referred to as it instead of they.

The Triatal Triunity

The special type of triunity known as a triate, being of fixed multiplicity, can be examined in more specific detail than the general multiunity. For example, we have already given names to the three triatal prototons: focalate, diffluate, and multiate. And we have described their individual basic properties. Similarly, we can inspect in more specific detail the workings of the versate and even name the individual versotons. Let us agree that in listing triatal prototons, the order of naming shall always progress from focalate to diffluate to multiate, skipping over those not listed.

Each of the seven triatal versotons, the versotonic incarnations of the prototonic combinative possibilities, is a singlate.

The one synthoton is also a singlate.

Of the three versotonic monotrons in a triate (Figure 5-1), each shaped in the image of a different single prototonic primalate, the one that is the singlatic projection, in the versoplane, of: 1) the singlatic focalate, 2) the singlatic diffluate, or 3) the pluratic multiate is named, respectively: 1) the centrate, 2) the omnate, or 3) the periphate. Each monotron partakes of certain of the attributes of its prototonic counterpart as that counterpart is restricted to function in the triate.

As an example, let us travel back in our minds in time. To the political beginnings of America. Imagine the historical triate of the then forming American State. The focalate of this frail but destiny-charged infant is George Washington--the person who is the president. The diffluate is the differentiating young government apparatus, including the Constitution. And the multiate, of course, of this triate of state is the plurosumpersonocitizens--the plural totality of the persons constituting the American citizenry.

Persons can be prototons and subprototons (multiatons, for example). But roles, such as citizen or president, are versotonic realities. Thus, persons who are American citizens are multiatons in this triate that you and I are considering, while American citizens are versotons--actually, not triatal versotons, but rather multounital versotons, a concept that I will describe to you below.

The focalate of this new cultural reality emerging into the heaving historical world scene is George Washington. A person. George Washington the person was other things in addition to being president. A husband, for example. A landowner. His specialized monotronic versotonic projection as the centrate in this particular triate is as President Washington, in contrast to his unspecialized protoplanic presence as Mr. Washington, the focalate.

Of the three duotrons in a triate, versotonic projections of pairs of prototons as joint singlates, the duotron whose prototonic primalate pair is: 1) the focalate and diffluate, 2) the focalate and multiate, or 3) the diffluate and multiate is called, respectively: 1) the actate, 2) the interactate, or 3) the reactate.

The single triatal versotonic treotron (the sumotron), the singlatic joint projection in the versoplane of the focalate, diffluate, and multiate, is called the structate.

The Multounity

The law of triate identity as you learned it in your study of homolevelate triates specifies that any reality is a multiate in its triate of identity. The heterolevelate perspective, however, carries with it a revised formulation of the law of triate identity. One of the reasons that this is so is that a multiate is defined differently in the homolevate view, which regards it as a singlate, than in the heterolevelate view, which classifies it as a plurate.

See there, in the heterolevelate perspective, the pluratic multiate: things. Now, observe, up higher in the triate, in the penthouse versoplane, the multiate's monotronic projection as a singlate, the periphate: a thing. You see that the triatal multiate and periphate are also the protoate and versate, respectively, of a heterolevelate unity embedded within the heterolevelate triate. This subtriatal unity, called the triatal multounity (a multiate viewed as a unity), shares the protoplane, synthoplane, and versoplane with its encompassing triate, which is actually its triate of identity.

Pursuing this idea of a multounity, consider if you will a triate whose multiate consists of four multiatons. The triate can be referred to as a quadmultiatonic triate. Do you see that the four multiatons are the triatal multiate, a plurate? And that these same four multiatons are also the multounital protoate, which, like the triatal multiate, is also a plurate? The multiunity arising from these four unitons is thus a quadunity, comprising four prototons, one synthoton, and fifteen versotons.

Consider the multounity's versate. It resides up high in the unity, in the unital versoplane, which is also the triatal versoplane. From the triatal point of view, the multounital versate is a monotron, the periphate, a featureless, impenetrable singlate. But as seen from a perspective anchored within the multounity, this versotonic projection is not a monotron. Not even a singlate. It is a plurate and consists of the entire multounital versate of fifteen individual multounital versotons, each being a singlate and each being, depending on the identity of its prototonic counterpart or counterparts, a monotron, a duotron, a treotron, or a quadrotron.

And the quicksilver shapechanger inhabiting multilevelate reality is recognized at last as a form of referential dichotomy. The reality seen in the triatal frame of reference as a monolithic singlate is experienced, as one's perspective shrinks down from the triatal to the multounital frame of reference, to be a diverse plurate. This is the secret chamber of one becoming many and many becoming one.

A multounity is an unseen hand. Scooping up all of the individual snowflakes that collectively are the pluratic triatal summultiatons and are also the multounital sumprototons, it intercombines their various potencies as the pluratic multounital sumversotons. As it hands these unital versotons over to its containing triate of identity, they are scrunched together by the new reference frame into one hard-packed snowball, the singlatic triatal versoton, the periphate.

Behind this conceptual door stretches a whole universe of ideas relating to the progressive downstepping, or packing, of reality from one state to another, a detailed realm of visualization of transactions touched upon throughout The URANTIA Book.

Here are a few terms to designate the relationship of a unity to a group of realities that are planotons in it. If a reality or group of realities are the protoate, synthate, or versate of a given unity, then that unity is their protounity, synthounity, or versounity, respectively. Multounity, or multiatic protounity, not otherwise qualified, refers to the protounity of a given triatal multiate.

Any unity is the multounity of its identifying triate. It is the protounity of the triatal multiate. This relationship, rephrased, is the heterolevelate law of triate identity, which states:

Every individual reality has its existence upheld in a triate, known as its triate of identity, or identifying triate, in which it is known as the identified reality and is the triatal multo-unity.

Soon this current phase of your introduction to multilevelate reality will be finished. Then my instruction to you will exit from this current phase of describing the basic mechanical tools of realitization, particularly enstructuration. This field of multilevelate reality is referred to as structonics. My instruction to you will then enter upon its second phase, called genonics, which is the deployment of these tools in the description of the genesis of the physical, mindal, spirital, and other dimensions of being.