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ONE
The Diamond Ladder
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HAVE you ever felt an awareness rising whose touch
you suddenly know you have experienced before, been transported
by a thought or encounter to a familiar inner landscape somehow
forgotten? Sometimes, when the riding wind whispers against my
cheek or a summoning birdsong arrests my hearing, a timeless hush
descends and the air becomes charged with a palpable sense of
being. The bird, the wind, and I are kin. We share the
miracle of existence. We are!
Reality can be perceived as a presence so strongly sensed that all intellectualizations about it pale. At other times it can be analyzed and discussed. To venture distant conceptual byways of reality is a great journey. Beyond the familiar orientation of land and sky, city and forest, the conceptual traveler must devise restricting terms, point-patterned constellations for navigation.
As a polestar to provide our bearings on this journey,
I would suggest the concept of levelates, a term denoting
a degree of organization, or structuration. As
one lays down the primal conceptual basis of a reality perspective,
related factors arise, as if of themselves. Structurate
signifies a structure, from a levelate perspective.
All individual realities are structurates: stars, galaxies,
atoms, ideas, feelings. A company, a structurate, is a
superstructurate, or overate, to its employees, who are
substructurates, or partates, of the company.
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The trinary aspect of reality is detectable in an organizing mechanism that I shall refer to as a triate, which can be viewed from different angles, depending on one's area of interest. In the homolevelate view, a simplification of the heterolevelate perspective, a triate is a structurate composed of three partate structurates: a focalate, a multiate, and a diffluate. |
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The focalate of a triate is a central, controlling structurate. The multiate is an encircling, controlled structurate -- an overate of individual parts called multiatons. A triate's diffluate, A DIFfuse inFLUence, is a directed influence that impresses patterns inherent in the focalate upon the multiate.
To visualize a triate, one can summon up in one's
mind the image of the solar system in which our blue-swirled planet
has its cyclic existence. At the center is the sun, great, commanding,
proud, the focalate of the solar system multiate
(planets, asteroids, and other orbiting material). The third
element of the solar system triate is its diffluate, which
causes the multiate to take on positions, properties, and
motions that are inherent in patterns in the focalate.
From the point of view of the multiate, the diffluate is the
diffuse presence of the pattern-setting focalate over the multiate;
to the focalate, the diffluate is the focalized presence of the
pattern-responding multiate.
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Increased insight can attend shifts in perspective. If one restricts
one's view of a triatal multiate to a submultiate instead,
dramatic new triate properties leap up like flames in the night.
If, in a triate where the focalate is completely surrounded by
the multiate, one views a segment of that multiate as the
total multiate, the focalate is effectively displaced laterally
from the center of the new multiate. The new, lesser multiate
is called a lateral multiate, and the original multiate,
in which the focalate is centrally located, a central multiate.
Any individual reality is a multiate, either lateral or central, to some focalate, which, through its diffluate presence, causes the individual reality to come into being and upholds it and its properties. This is generalized in the law of triate identity, which, in its homolevelate form, is:
Every individual reality has its existence upheld in a triate, known as its triate of identity, or identifying triate, in which it is the multiate, also known as the identified reality.
In the triate chain resides the pattern of the diamond ladder,
the glistening lockstitch threading all things into ascending
overates of existence. Structurates are upheld in their triates
of identity, which in turn are upheld in more overateward triates
of identity.
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You and I turn our attention to this schematic
portrayal, acquainting ourselves with its features. The hourglass
surfaces are called the unital walls and the three planes
the subunital planes. The intersection of each plane with
the unital walls is a glowing subunital circle. Each plane
is the repository for a separate aspect of the unity. At the
bottom of the unity is the protoplane, whose intersection
with the unital walls is the protocircle. Just above is
the synthoplane, with its associated synthocircle.
And the topmost subunital plane, the versoplane, intersects
the unital walls as the subunital circle called the versocircle.
Identation is a property signifying whether
a structurate is a singlate or a plurate. A
singlate (a singular term) is a set of items viewed as
a single reality: army, for example, or book
(one set of its many parts). A plurate (a plural
term) is a set of items viewed as all of the individual members
of a set: soldiers, for example or (many parts
of the) book. Sometimes singular grammar is applied to
a plurate, which, though referred to as it instead of they,
is still a plurate.
See the prototons strung like beads along the smooth
curvilinearity of the protocircle. They are the unitants
of the unity. An individual reality can be a prototon in several
unities. In unities involving persons, for example, one
can find members, partners, citizens. But
these are unity-defined roles and dwell high in the unital interiors.
Protoplanes hold no such unity-restricted realities. For
protoplanes are the marbled entranceways of the unities.
Antecedent to specialized functioning, they know only the independent,
noninterassociated phases of realities: this man or
that woman.
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The monotrons, as we have seen, are the projections into
the versoplane of each individual prototon (more correctly,
of that portion of each individual prototon that is committed
to the unity) as an individual versoton. A monotron
is denominated the centrate, omnate, or periphate
as it is the projection into the versoplane of the focalate,
diffluate, or multiate, respectively, and can also
be referred to as the versofocalate, versodiffluate,
or versomultiate, respectively. The focalate, diffluate,
and multiate can also be referred to as the protocentrate,
protoomnate, and protoperiphate, respectively.
A triatonic designator is a unitonic designator
applied to a triate. You and I adopt the following three series
of triatal planotonic numbering: In the protoplane, the
numbers 1, 2, and 3 designate the focalate,
diffluate, and multiate, respectively. In the synthoplane,
1 signifies the synthoton. In the versoplane,
among the monotrons, 1, 2, and 3 designate
the centrate, omnate, and periphate, respectively.
The versotonic actate, interactate, and reactate
are designated by 4, 5, and 6, respectively.
And the versotonic treotron, the structate, is
denoted by 7. Thus, 7V2o specifies a triatal omnate,
while 3P2o specifies a triatal diffluate. We could have
found, even if we had not known, that the unity involved in 7V2o
is a triunity, by substituting various numbers for n
in the versotonic multiplicity formula and observing which value
of n produces a result of 7. We can also find the
complement of any triatal versoton; for under our triatal planotonic
numbering scheme, the planotonic sequence numbers of two complemental
versotons always add up to seven. Thus, the versotonic
complement of planoton number one, the monotronic centrate -- versotonic
projection of the focalate -- is versoton number seven-minus-one,
or 6, which is the reactate, a duotron, the
versotonic projection of the prototonic diffluate and multiate
as one.
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A triate, a special case of a triunity, is also known as a triatofractiate. Its corresponding integriates -- directiate, subordiate, and completiate -- are denominated a triatodirectiate, a triatosubordiate, and a triatocompletiate, respectively. A triatal basiate is called a triatobasiate. Triunital unigrates and triatal unitogrates are called triatounigrates and triatounitogrates, respectively. Triatal unigratons and triatal unitogratons are called triato-unigratons and triato-unitogratons, respectively.
The family triunity is also known as the fractial
family triunity, or family trifractiate. If one strips away
in one's mind the non-family-triunity component of the family
triunity prototons, one is left, conceptually, with the family
triunity directons. The family tridirectiate has
as directoprototons the family triunity directons family man,
family woman, family youth (that is, family sumio-man,
family sumio-woman, family sumio-youth). The family
tridirectiate is not a triunity, for its directoprototons are
non fractial.
A reality that is perfectly unified within itself
is said to be partra-unified. A group of realities that
are perfectly unified between themselves is said to be ovra-unified.
A group of realities, each of which is partra-unified and all
of which, as a group, are ovra-unified, is said to be omni-unified.
A multiunity whose sumprotoate is omni-unified is called an omni-multiunity.
Completiates are theoretical integrial realities. For a given multiunity, a potential completiate always exists; however, an actual completiate, the equivalent of a non-fractial multiunity -- or multiunity whose prototons commit all of their realities to the multiunity -- would be a post-evolutionary structure, unalterable by internal or external influences. This requirement is embodied in the completiate actualization criterion, which is stated as follows:
A completiate can only actualize when the associated multiunity possesses complete, unqualified, final, and unalterable unity within each of its prototons and between all of its prototons.
Completiates, therefore, are unqualifiedly stable omni-integriates;
there are no completiates that are not omni-completiates.
To visualize an emergo-completiate, one might consider
a friendship, a purely personal unity (an endio-personal
unity) of several persons who, among other things, are also kings.
Each of the sumio-persons is a fractial prototon
in the endio-personal multiunity. Each associated directon
consists of the endio-person's committed realities -- that
is, committed to the personal multiunity. Each associated
subordon consists of the sumio-person's uncommitted sumio-realities,
including: (1) the uncommitted endio-personal realities
and (2) all of the sumio-person's exio-realities, among which
are the sumio-person's responsive kingdom realities -- that
is, the kingdom realities that are subordinate to the exio-person,
hence to the sumio-person. The uncommittted endio-personal
realities of each person are direct subordial realities,
inherently subject to the person. The responsive kingdom realities
of each person are indirect subordial realities, made subject
to the person through another multiunity (a kingship triate).
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A treo-biunity is three biunities sharing a common prototon,
or treo-prototon, and sharing the treo-prototon's resultant
monotronic versotonic projection, called a treo-versoton -- more
specifically, a treo-monotron. A poly-biunity is
a number of biunities sharing a common prototon, or poly-prototon,
and sharing the poly-prototon's resultant monotronic versotonic
projection, called a poly-versoton, or poly-monotron.
The unshared prototons in a poly-biunity are called uni-prototons.
The versotons that have no poly-versotons in their being are
called uni-versotons. The degree of a poly-biunity
is equal to the number of prototons (uni-prototons plus poly-prototons)
it possesses; for example, a treo-biunity, possessing four prototons,
is of degree four.
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A completial poly-biunity is a poly-biunity
whose co-biunities are completial biunities. The versotonic population
of a non-completial, or emergo-completial, poly-biunity
is the same as that of a multiunity of the same degree
as the poly-biunity with the exception that the poly-biunital
versate does not include those multiunital versotons that involve
any combination of two or more of the uni-versotons. For example,
the duo-biunity whose duo-prototon is denominated B and
whose uni-prototons are A and C, when compared with
the trunity that is prototonic in A, B, and C, is missing
the triunital duotron A1C1 and the triunital treotron A1B1C1,
the missing versotons being referred to as poly-bisynthal
(more specifically, duo-bisynthal) versotons (a
duo-bisynthal duotron and a duo-bisynthal treotron).
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Numerous relational and constitutional factors of the versate shine out to our perception through the medium of the versal disk, especially in the partational rendering. With the versal disk, one can analyze specific triates, labelling the disk's parts in terms of the triate under examination to bring out various factors. If one replaces the circular arcs, which interconnect the versotons in the versal disk, with straight lines instead, one produces the versal hexagon, functionally equivalent to the versal disk.
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A further advance in understanding versate reality
awaits you and me in the versal portrayal known as the versal
cube. The versal cube is to the versal disk
as a three-dimensional figure is to a two-dimensional
figure. Any versotonic structate is a versal sum.
The summation of qualities as well as of quantities,
it is therefore a vector sum, represented geometrically
as a point (bead center) in a reference system. In the
versal disk the structate possesses a two-dimensional
location, while in the versal cube the structate possesses
a three-dimensional location.
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Examining the figure that you and I have created, we see that depicting the monotrons as one-dimensional axial vectors in a three-dimensional coordinate system generates three two-dimensional duotrons, each duotron being a resultant vector and lying in its own plane of the coordinate system. The monotrons are lines -- one-dimensional vectors. The duotrons are planes -- two-dimensional vectors. The three two-dimensional duotronic vectors together form a resultant three-dimensional vector, the structate, in the c,o,p space of the COP coordinate system. They are the projections, in the coordinate planes, of this total, or summational, vector.
Numerous factors can be observed in the versal
cube. The monotronic and duotronic sheets can be
seen in it, by connecting together the three monotronic beads
and connecting together the three duotronic beads, respectively.
In the rectangular framework of the versal cube, we can easily
perceive that these, the versal sheets, are parallel to
one another.
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View, if you will, the versal cube corner-on, looking down along
the structatal vector toward the origin, as if the cube were balanced
on its origin corner and observed from above. See how the visible
and hidden lines of the cubical outline, taking on seemingly unaccustomed
turnings, are really the versal hexagon (hence the versal
disk). The versal hexagon, we see in this new perspective,
is the versal cube seen along the structatal cubal diagonal,
the perception of depth along the line-of-sight being lost because
of the orientation of the observer and compressed into the planarity
of the versal hexagon.
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In the versal cube, the Star-of-David pattern of the versal hexagon is seen, released from its two-dimensional bondage, viewed in the clarity of three dimensions. It is in reality two structures mistaken as one: the separate, parallel versal sheets observed, like two celestial constellations, from a direction that causes them to appear to lie in the same plane. The origin -- the one unidentified bead -- of the versal cube is the synthoton of the multilevelate triate, the unonic needle's eye from -- or through -- which the versate blossoms into being.
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One can visualize the triatal versate in terms
of a non-periphatally-centered, rather than a periphatally-centered,
reference frame -- for example, a centratally-centered
reference frame. Instead of the periphonic perspective,
such a reference frame embodies the centronic perspective.
The centronic selectons are called centrons. The
constituent factors of the centronic versate lie in centratal
versotonic groupings rather than in the periphonic versate.
Thus the transons in the centronic versate have the same names -- endon,
associon, and exon -- as the transons in
the periphonic versate. But the centronic endon -- the
endon of the centronic versate -- is the
centrate, not the periphate. The centronic exon
is the grouping of the omnate, periphate, and reactate
(omnate-periphate). And the centronic associon is composed
of the actate (centrate-omnate), the interactate
(centrate-periphate), and the structate (centrate-omnate-periphate).
The transons in this perspective are called the immanons,
being viewed from outside the unity and being the means
by which the focalate establishes a patterning presence in the
unity, both on a total scale and in every unitant and uniton of
the unity.
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All that has been said, in this discussion, of biunifiates -- unitent biunities and their co-unitogrates -- can be said, more generally, of multiunifiates. In order for the unitent versotons in a unifiatal multiunity to unitronize, each unifiatal fracto-multiunital prototon -- unitron -- must consist of a perfectly unified, or partra-unified, unitention and unialities (endionic or exionic). Only in this way will each prototon be able to convey unialities that it controls to its unitent versotonic offspring. Also, for each possible grouping of multiunital prototons, the prototonic unialities that the grouping conveys must align with one another in the multisubordiatal versoplane as a single conjoint uniality corresponding to a unitent directoversoton of the multidirectiate.
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The unitentions -- directons -- in a trinitivity
can only be unipotentions and not unitiventions.
The unitivons creating a unitivent biunity, or biunitivatiate,
can contribute some of their endionic, or direct, unialities to
the radiumic subordoversotons and hence to the radiumic comploversotons.
But such radiumic comploversotons, being unitivons, can possess
no unialities other than endionic unialities to contribute
in turn to the graviumic subordoprototons, hence to the graviumic
comploprototons and the finalateward graviumic comploversotons;
therefore, the graviumic comploversotons, as well as the radiumic
comploversotons, both would be unialitized from the radiumic prototons,
reducing the supposed trinitivital gravium to merely an auxiliary
unitivent multiunity and not producing a true two-story trinitivity.
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